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Record 12265

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 9 Jan 1790
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Conegliano
   
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:Eugenia Wynne
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1780
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: Catholic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Hernan Cortes
Title: Cartas de relacion [??]
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12265  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Anne Fremantle
  Title: The Wynne Diaries
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1935
  Vol: I
  Page: 28
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anne Fremantle (ed.), The Wynne Diaries (London, 1935), I, p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12265, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

No volume entitled 'Discovery of America' by Cortes exists. If not a translation of his 'Cartas de Relacion', the book could be Bernal Diaz de Castillo 'The Conquest of New Spain'.

 

 

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