| Evidence: | '[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and
describes in [italics]The Scholemaster[end italics] (1570) how he found her reading Plato while
the rest of the household was out hunting.' |
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| Century: | 1500-1599 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1550 and 31 Dec 1550 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Lady Jane Grey |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1537 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | pretender to English throne |
| Religion: | Protestant |
| 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: | Plato |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Classics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17293 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | 8 | |
| Page: | 170 n.4 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 170 n.4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17293, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
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