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Record Number: 11238


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This was written, I think in a less disagreeable style, and certainly it was less opaquely obscure to me...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1856 and 30 Nov 1856

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
location in dwelling: lodgings room in Pimlico

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:

Edmund Gosse

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1849

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

son of zoological writer

Religion:

Plymouth Brethren

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

ill mother, Emily Gosse


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Bishop Edward Elliott

Title:

Horae Apocalypticae

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

11238

Source:

Print

Author:

Edmund Gosse

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Father and Son: a study of two temperments

Place of Publication:

Keele: Ryburn Publishing

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

n/a

Page:

67

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=11238, accessed: 17 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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