Record Number: 12735

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... Elwood's, however, is by far the best of the three, and is indeed one of the most downright straightforward productions I have ever met with. What a book of books an autobiography might be made, if a man were found who would and could tell the whole truth and no more than the truth!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 4 Sep 1848 and 11 Sep 1848

Country:

Bermuda

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda

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:

John Mitchel

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Nov 1815

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason

Religion:

Presbyterian family

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

Bermuda

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Elwood

Title:

[autobiography]

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)
library on board the hulk

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12735

Source:

Print

Author:

John Mitchel

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Jail Journal

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Date of Publication:

1913

Vol:

n/a

Page:

64

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 64, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12735, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None