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.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 2 Nov 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
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 |
Record ID: | 12115 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
Letter to John Forster. |
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