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Record Number: 5712


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ... has very little marking and only a few actual notes in it, but all his notes correct the author on matters of fact ..."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1801 and 1805

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:

Horatio Nelson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1758

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Naval officer

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:

Helen Maria Williams

Title:

Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth Century

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

2 vols. London: Robinson, 1801

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

5712

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:

248

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 248, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5712, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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