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Record Number: 28835


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

31 Oct 1828

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire

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:

William Ewart Gladstone

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

1809

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

Student at Oxford University

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:

Henry Fynes Clinton

Title:

Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece

Genre:

Classics, History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Gladstone's Library Includes the edition published by Oxford University Press. 3 vols, 1827-34.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28835

Source:

Print

Author:

William Gladstone

Editor:

Foot M.R.D.

Title:

The Gladstone Diaries

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

1

Page:

209

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Gladstone, Foot M.R.D. (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries (Oxford, 1968), 1, p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28835, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Footnote in Foot's edition identifies this text. Gladstone's own copy is at Hawarden Library. It is not annotated. Gladstone's Library Includes the edition published by Oxford University Press. 3 vols, 1827-34.

   
   
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