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Record 4447

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'"
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
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:Joseph Croswell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1712
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: unknown
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: New England
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mr. Erskine
Title: [spiritual autobiography]
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4447  
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=4447, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Sketches of the Life, and Extracts from the Journals, and Other Writings, of the Late Joseph Croswell (1809).

 

 

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