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Record 4445

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "Life and Death"; she was all in Tears ...'
Century: 1600-1699, 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: America
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:Carteret Rede
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: America
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Janeway
Title: Life and Death
Genre: Other religious, Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4445  
Source - Print  
  Author: David D. Hall
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book
  Place of Publication: Amherst
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 66
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst, 1996), p. 66, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4445, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from [Mrs Sarah Rede], "A Token For Youth" (1729) 12.

 

 

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