Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 11813

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that Miscellany, that early June 1827, he was at Buxton, whither he was hurried by his medical friends for the gout in his stomach, accompanied by his daughters Jane and Isabella.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Mar 1830 and 31 Mar 1830
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 Cole
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Oct 1792
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Publisher / bookseller
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Dovaston
Title: [article on Thomas Bewick]
Genre: Biography, Natural history
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: in The Magazine of Natural History
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11813  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: John Cole
  Title: An account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829)
  Location: York Minster Archive
  Call no: Add Mss 153/4
  Page/folio: p. 612

Citation: John Cole, An account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829) York Minster Archive, p. Add Mss 153/4, p. p. 612, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11813, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

'His' refers to Thomas Bewick, the engraver, who visited Scarborough in July 1827. John Cole met him during his visit. John Cole kept diaries throughout his life - and then used the diaries to produce a manuscript 'An Account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough' (started in 1829 - 18 volumes). Much of the substance of the MS is based on his diaries (and appears for much of the MS to be copied direct from his diaries). The original diaries are apparently no longer extant.

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)