Evidence: | 'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The book was a Delphin edition of 1798, which had followed him in all his wanderings; ther was a great scratch on the sheep-skin cover that a thorn had made in a forest of Alabama.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1830 and 31 Dec 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | Canada, West Indies, United States (Alabama) | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Philip Gosse |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | zoological writer |
Religion: | Plymouth Brethren |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Canada, West Indies, United States (Alabama) |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Virgil |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11244 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edmund Gosse | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Father and Son: a study of two temperments | |
Place of Publication: | Keele: Ryburn Publishing | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 120-121 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 120-121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11244, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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