Record Number: 10210

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the bookseller's son remembered'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1780 and 31 Dec 1799

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Windsor
other location: bookshop

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

King George III

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1738

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Monarch

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Paine

Title:

The Rights of Man

Genre:

Politics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ
Bookshop

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Source Information:

Record ID:

10210

Source:

Print

Author:

Christopher Hibbert

Editor:

n/a

Title:

George III: a personal history

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

199

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Christopher Hibbert, George III: a personal history (London, 1999), p. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=10210, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Event took place in Charles Knight's shop