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Record Number: 5572


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pamphlet, Reminiscences of Handel (1836).

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

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:

Richard Clark

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Musician

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Richard Clark

Title:

Reminiscences of Handel, His Grace the Duke of Chandos, Powells the Harpers ... The Harmonious Blacksmith, and Others. With a List of the Anthems Composed at Commons, by Handel, for the Duke of Chandos. And an Appendix [containing wills]

Genre:

History, Biography, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

1836

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

5572

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:

195-96

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 195-96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5572, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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