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Record 12756

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full enough of incident certainly; for the author seems to give different versions of the same event as so many different transactions, and he ruthlessly kills more Greeks in the course of this war than there have been in all Greece at one time since the days of Philopoemen not to speak of incredible multitudes of Turks, whom he generally slays at least thrice.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 15 Jan 1849 and 1 Feb 1849
Country: Bermuda
Time: n/a
Place: other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda
   
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:John Mitchel
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Nov 1815
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion: Presbyterian family
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: Bermuda
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Keightley
Title: History of the War of Independence in Greece
Genre: History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
perhaps borrowed from library on prison hulk?

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12756  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Mitchel
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Jail Journal
  Place of Publication: Dublin
  Date of Publication: 1913
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 119
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12756, accessed: 28 March 2024

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