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Record 22431

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and external weight of glory"; "We walk by faith and not by sight"'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 19 Aug 1829
Country: England
Time: morning: 7:45am
Place: city: London, Upton
   
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 Fry
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 21 May 1780
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: wife of merchant
Religion: Quaker
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: Bible (Corinthians)
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22431  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Elizabeth Fry
  Title: Journal
  Location: British Library
  Call no: Add Mss 47457
  Page/folio: ff. 78

Citation: Elizabeth Fry, Journal British Library, p. Add Mss 47457, p. ff. 78, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22431, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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