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Record 11809

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 22 Dec 1662
Country: England
Time: evening: before bed
Place: city: London
specific address: Seething Lane
location in dwelling: at home
   
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:Elizabeth Pepys
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 23 Oct 1640
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: wife of 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 husband, Samuel Pepys
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ovid
Title: Metamorphoses
Genre: Classics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: probably English translation by George Sandys, 1640
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11809  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Pepys
  Editor: Robert Latham
  Title: The diary of Samuel Pepys
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: 3
  Page: 289
  Additional comments: co-editor William Matthews

Citation: Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 3, p. 289, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11809, accessed: 29 March 2024

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