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Record 19923

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my Papers, cried, "Ay the [italics] Irish [end italics] Whore, here is something about some [italics] Roman [end italics] Father, that's the Pope, and be damn'd to you is it?'''
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 31 Dec 1742
Country: England
Time: morning
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: a bailiff
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: bailiff
Religion: n/a
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: Laetitia Pilkington
Title: Roman Father, The
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ
read in L. Pilkington's lodgings

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19923  
Source - Print  
  Author: Laetitia Pilkington
  Editor: A.C. Elias
  Title: Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
  Place of Publication: Athens GA
  Date of Publication: 1997
  Vol: I
  Page: 202
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 202, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19923, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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