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Record 4231

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you promis?d much. Remember! Keep your word. T. H.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: England
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:Thomas Holcroft
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 10 Dec 1745
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Father was a shoe maker
Occupation: Dramatists and miscellaneous writer
Religion: n/a
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: Amelia Opie
Title: Adelaide
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Manuscript: Play script
Publication details: Never published
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4231  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Eliot McGregor
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend
  Place of Publication: Wisconsin
  Date of Publication: 1933
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 13
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Eliot McGregor, Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend (Wisconsin, 1933), p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4231, accessed: 25 April 2024

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