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Record Number: 4240


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit them to go to bed.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

1 Jan 1833

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Penzance

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:

Amelia Opie

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

12 Nov 1769

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Father was a physician

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Presbyterian/ Quaker 1825 onwards

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:

John Carne

Title:

Letters from the East

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1826

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4240

Source:

Print

Author:

Cecilia Lucy Brightell

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie

Place of Publication:

Norwich

Date of Publication:

1854

Vol:

n/a

Page:

294

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Cecilia Lucy Brightell, Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie (Norwich, 1854), p. 294, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4240, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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