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Record 14879

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about the little profit of honour this Kingdom ever gained in its greatest of its conquests abroad in France.'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 4 Dec 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
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sir Robert Cotton
Title: An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: probably version published in "Cottoni Posthuma", 1657
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14879  
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: 564
  Additional comments: Co-editor William Matthews

Citation: Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 8, p. 564, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14879, accessed: 28 March 2024

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