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Record 24735

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 13 Nov 1600
Country: England
Time: afternoon
Place: city: London
   
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:Margaret Hoby
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 10 Feb 1571
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: wife of Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, JP
Religion: Church of England
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: [unknown]
Title: [sermon]
Genre: Sermon
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24735  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Hoby
  Editor: Dorothy M. Meads
  Title: Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1930
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 153
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Hoby, Dorothy M. Meads (ed.), Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby (London, 1930), p. 153, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24735, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

date of birth unknown, so date of baptism given instead editor's note: She evidently carried a little book of them [sermons] with her and whiled away the period of waiting by reading

 

 

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