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Record 6178

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 25 Dec 1756
Country: England
Time: morning
afternoon
evening
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:Thomas Turner
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Shopkeeper
Religion: Anglican (?)
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Tillotson
Title: Sermons
Genre: Sermon
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6178  
Source - Print  
  Author: Naomi Tadmor
  Editor: James Raven
  Title: The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Women, reading and household'
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 166-9.
  Additional comments: Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor.

Citation: Naomi Tadmor, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Women, reading and household' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 166-9., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6178, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Tadmor cites David Vaisey (ed), The Diary of Thomas Turner (Oxford, 1985) which reveals that Turner read many other works during the 1750s, including Locke, Smart, Martin's Magazine, The recruiting officer, The yeoman of Kent, Voyage into the Levant and Derham's Psycio-Theology.

 

 

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