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Record 18407

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There is a most amiable Archbishop, who is very anxious for my conversion to the "[italics] true [end italics] faith". He gives me all sorts of books to read'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Rome
   
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:Charlotte Bury
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 18 Feb 1775
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Lady-in-waiting
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: [Catholic books]
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
lent by an Archbishop

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18407  
Source - Print  
  Author: Charlotte Bury
  Editor: A. Francis Steuart
  Title: Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1908
  Vol: II
  Page: 31
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18407, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Sinced the chronology is so confused in Bury's diary it is probably safer to say date unknown - 1815-1820. She organised the material long afterwards.

 

 

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