Record Number: 5776

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of Love, "a tiny Scottish chapbook of the kind sold by itinerant peddlers to the poorest readers ... [a] closely printed little book of just twenty-four pages ... a guide to the arts of courtship, including the significance of marks on different parts of the body and the meaning of dreams ... [and including] model love letters, love songs ... [etc]."

Century:

1700-1799, 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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The New School of Love

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry, Textbook / self-education, Conduct books, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology, Astrology / alchemy / occult

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5776

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:

89-90; 89

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 89-90; 89, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5776, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None