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Record Number: 5713


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

" ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 and proceeded to record readings and rereadings to the end of the century: the poem for the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, for instance, he read at Hanfairfechan in 1894, at Lansdowne in 1898, and in Exmouth in 1899."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1894

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Hanfairfechan

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:

Henry Shorthouse

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

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:

John Keble

Title:

The Christian Year

Genre:

Other religious, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

5713

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:

251

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 251, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5713, accessed: 27 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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