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Record 11289

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, with the assistance of my good and intelligent governess [companion Lilie] to help me, looked for it in my two volumes of Locke's Essays, but our eyes have not hit on it yet'...
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1836 and 31 Dec 1836
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:John Birch
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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: John Locke
Title: Essays
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11289  
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: 17
  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. 17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11289, accessed: 24 April 2024

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