Record Number: 13656

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

14 Mar 1815

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: London

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:

Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

24 May 1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Mary Godwin

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Gibbon

Title:

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

13656

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Paula R. Feldman

Title:

The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

I

Page:

69

Additional Comments:

Additional editor: Diana Scott-Kilvert

Citation:

Paula R. Feldman (ed.), The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844 (Oxford, 1987), I, p. 69, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13656, accessed: 25 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

393 is presumably page reached