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Record Number: 4443


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I thought suitable, with passages put of Mr. Allein's "Alarm".'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

America

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Newport, Rhode Island

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:

Sarah Osborn

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1714

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Teacher

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

America

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

Reader's eldest son


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Joseph Alleine

Title:

Alarm for the Unconverted

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4443

Source:

Print

Author:

David D. Hall

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book

Place of Publication:

Amherst

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

n/a

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst, 1996), p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4443, accessed: 28 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from "Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Sarah Osborn" (1799) 66.

   
   
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