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Record Number: 12071


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen numbers; and nearly all have forwarded the most appalling nonsense I ever had the ill fortune to peruse.?

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

27 Nov 1836

Country:

England

Time

evening: Sunday

Place:

city: London
specific address: Furnivals Inn

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:

Charles Dickens

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

7 Feb 1812

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Journalist/ Novelist

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

unknown

Title:

submissions to Bentley's Miscellany

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
Contributions for Bentley's Miscellany.


Source Information:

Record ID:

12071

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Dickens

Editor:

Madeline House

Title:

The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1965

Vol:

1

Page:

199

Additional Comments:

Graham Storey ed. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.

Citation:

Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12071, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter to Richard Bentley.

   
   
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