| Evidence: | '[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, though his body was relaxed. He lay in bed with the book, which was a quarto, before him, and dictated while Hector wrote'. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1733 and 31 Dec 1733 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Mr Hector, who transcribed what he wrote |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jeronimo Lobo |
| Title: | Voyage to Abyssinia , A |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20725 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Boswell | |
| Editor: | R. W. Chapman | |
| Title: | Life of Johnson | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 62 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Boswell, R. W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20725, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Originally published 1791. Reading in order to translate. |
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