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Record 27151

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great skill, talent, and care; full of curious and new developments, and some facts which we did not know before. There breathes through the whole a most attractive spirit, and her feelings sometimes break out in the most beautiful effusions [...] it must be popular, as it is the most entertaining [book] imaginable; one of those books one does not like to quit before finishing it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Oct 1815 and 31 Dec 1815
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Isaac D'Israeli
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Helen Maria Williams
Title: Narrative of Events in France in 1815
Genre: History, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Published by John Murray, late 1815
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27151  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Smiles
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1891
  Vol: 1
  Page: 280-281
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 280-281, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27151, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Copy of text sent to D'Israeli by Murray; see p.280 in source.

 

 

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