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Record Number: 4749


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Angela Brazil

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1868

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Foxe

Title:

Book of Martyrs

Genre:

Other religious, Biography

Form of Text:

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4749

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

217 n.116

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 217 n.116, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4749, accessed: 27 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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