| Evidence: | 'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the bookseller's son remembered' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1780 and 31 Dec 1799 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Windsor other location: bookshop |
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| Reader: | King George III |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1738 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Monarch |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thomas Paine |
| Title: | The Rights of Man |
| Genre: | Politics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ Bookshop |
| Record ID: | 10210 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Christopher Hibbert | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | George III: a personal history | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 199 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Christopher Hibbert, George III: a personal history (London, 1999), p. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10210, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Event took place in Charles Knight's shop |
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