Record Number: 24828

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters'

Century:

1600-1699

Date:

11 Jun 1601

Country:

England

Time

morning

Place:

city: Hackness
county: North Yorkshire
location in dwelling

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Servant

Occupation:

maid to Lady Margaret Hoby

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Margaret Hoby and other maids

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Foxe

Title:

Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24828

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Hoby

Editor:

Dorothy M. Meads

Title:

Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1930

Vol:

n/a

Page:

175

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Margaret Hoby, Dorothy M. Meads (ed.), Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby (London, 1930), p. 175, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24828, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None