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Record 12620

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to continue them but as I hope that I shall soon have great many fine things to describe I will still write them and endeavour to make them less stupid'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 26 Jan 1796
Country: Germany
Time: n/a
Place: city: Ratisbon
   
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:Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 19 Apr 1778
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: Catholic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Germany
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Elizabeth Wynne
Title: [diaries]
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Manuscript: diary
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12620  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Anne Fremantle
  Title: The Wynne Diaries
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1937
  Vol: II
  Page: 65
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anne Fremantle (ed.), The Wynne Diaries (London, 1937), II, p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12620, accessed: 26 April 2024

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