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Record 12115

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have been quite absorbed in it ever since.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 2 Nov 1837
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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:Charles Dickens
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7 Feb 1812
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Journalist and writer
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Daniel Defoe
Title: The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern
Genre: Other religious, Fiction, History
Form of Text: Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Publication details: 1726
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12115  
Source - Print  
  Author: Charles Dickens
  Editor: Madeline House
  Title: The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1965
  Vol: 1
  Page: 328
  Additional comments: Additional editor: Graham Storey. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.

Citation: Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume One: 1820-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 328, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12115, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to John Forster.

 

 

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