Evidence: | '"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 26 Oct 1769 | ||||||||||
Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | London Chronicle |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 21084 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.C. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 424 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.C. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 424, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21084, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)