Evidence: | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 2 Nov 1662 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Seething Lane location in dwelling: at home |
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Reader: | Samuel Pepys |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 23 Feb 1633 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Admiralty, Clerk of the Acts |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Read with wife, Elizabeth Pepys, but unsure if she was a listener |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas |
Title: | Divine weekes and workes |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1641, translated by Joshua Sylvester |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11798 | |
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Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 247 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor William Matthews |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 3, p. 247, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11798, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)