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Record 4537

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1786 and 31 Dec 1791
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:The Hon. Stephen Digby
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: Colonel
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Frances Burney
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Falconer
Title: The Shipwreck
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4537  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Anne Doody
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Frances Burney: The Life in the Works
  Place of Publication: New Brunswick, NJ
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 244
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Anne Doody, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (New Brunswick, NJ, 1988), p. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4537, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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