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Record 5386

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made by contemporary reader of copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (1783).
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
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:anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Richard Watson
Title: A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
Genre: Politics
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5386  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 30-32
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 30-32, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5386, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source author conjectures that reader a member of clergy.

 

 

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