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Record Number: 8628


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jul 1810 and 31 Dec 1810

Country:

England

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:

Lady Caroline Lamb

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1785

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

socialite, novelist, influential member of the Whig political elite

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a]

Title:

New Testament

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

in Greek

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

8628

Source:

Print

Author:

Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby)

Editor:

Paul Douglass

Title:

The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

56

Additional Comments:

Letter to Lady Holland. Douglass dates it 1810 after 14 July.

Citation:

Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (New York, 2006), n/a, p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8628, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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