| Evidence: | "Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he has scarce ever been their quiet master since, but they would take all occasions to steal away, and go a-gadding to objects then unseasonable and impertinent.'" |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Boyle |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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 |
| Author: | |
| Title: | romance |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5201 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Stephen B. Dobranski | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2005 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 45 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), p. 45, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5201, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Robert Boyle, "An Account of Philaretus [i.e. Mr. R. Boyle], during his Minority," in The Works of the Hnourable Robert Boyle, ed. Thomas Birch, 5 vols. (London, 1744), 1: BIV-D2r; C1r. |
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