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Record 5470

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777; gift from the author), in which Priestley addressed as "'you'" and mocking marginal notes added as interjections to arguments.
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:John Horne Tooke
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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: Joseph Priestley
Title: Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit
Genre: Other religious, Philosophy, Science
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5470  
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: 83
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 83, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5470, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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