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Record 13231

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads at all) has read; among others, I stumbled upon the Life of Kotzebue, or rather his year of exile, and read it with the geatest interest. It is a rapid succession of very striking events, told with great force and simplicity. His display of sentiment seems very natural to the man, foolish as it sometimes is.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Mar 1815 and 31 Mar 1815
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Yorkshire
   
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:Sydney Smith
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Jun 1771
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Clergyman
Religion: Christian
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: August von Kotzebue
Title: Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: translated from the German
Provenance: borrowed (private library)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13231  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Nowell C. Smith
  Title: The Letters of Sydney Smith
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1953
  Vol: I
  Page: 254
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Nowell C. Smith (ed.), The Letters of Sydney Smith (Oxford, 1953), I, p. 254, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13231, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Leter to Francis Jeffrey

 

 

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