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Record 22344

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was; however, I had a very comfortable reading with them'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 12 May 1799
Country: England
Time: afternoon
Place: city: Norwich (2 miles)
county: Norfolk
specific address: Earlham Hall
location in dwelling: laundry
   
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:Elizabeth Gurney
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 21 May 1780
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: daughter of banker and merchant
Religion: Quaker
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
'boys' - students of the Sunday School she set up in her home
Additional comments: later Elizabeth Fry

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [unknown]
Title: [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]
Genre: Bible, Other religious, Autobiog / Diary, Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22344  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Elizabeth Fry
  Title: Journal
  Location: British Library
  Call no: Add Mss 47456
  Page/folio: ff. 60

Citation: Elizabeth Fry, Journal British Library, p. Add Mss 47456, p. ff. 60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22344, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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