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Record 11285

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently made any thing which had struck her in reading it, the subject of remark when she came down'
Century: 1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: morning: 8 am
Place: specific address: Barton Lodge
location in dwelling: Upstairs - bedroom
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Mary Birch
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1736
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: Bible
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11285  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: John W Birch
  Title: Letters written by the Late Mrs Birch of Barton Lodge in the ninety-ninth and hundredth years of her age
  Place of Publication: n/a
  Date of Publication: 1837
  Vol: n/a
  Page: v-vi
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John W Birch (ed.), Letters written by the Late Mrs Birch of Barton Lodge in the ninety-ninth and hundredth years of her age (1837), p. v-vi, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11285, accessed: 28 March 2024

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