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Record 14869

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 18 Nov 1667
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: London
location in dwelling: at home
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
passive 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 Clerk of the Acts, Admiralty
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Samuel Pepys, her husband
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Fuller
Title: The church-history of Britain
Genre: Other religious, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14869  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Pepys
  Editor: Robert Latham
  Title: The diary of Samuel Pepys
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: 8
  Page: 537
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 8, p. 537, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14869, accessed: 19 April 2024

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