Record Number: 5388

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'179 Murdering en masse at Toulon by Brutus Buonaparte Citizen Sans-culotte. "'Barras & his entourage [two further entries] "The first and second entries are taken verbatim from the text, the first from a footnote -- so Beckford was reading attentively."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

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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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Beckford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1760

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Stewarton

Title:

Revolutionary Plutarch

Genre:

History, Biography, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5388

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

40

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5388, accessed: 28 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None