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Record 21565

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery.—In the library, "Beroald",—"Cymon",—"Titus", from Boccace.—"Oratio Proverbialis" to the Virgin, from Petrarch; Falkland to Sandys;—Dryden's Preface to the third vol. of Miscellanies.' [Boswell's footnote: 'He means, I suppose, that he read those different pieces, while he remained in the library'.]
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 25 Oct 1775
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Versailles
specific address: library at St Cloud
   
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:Samuel Johnson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 18 Sep 1709
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
Religion: Anglican
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
Title: [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys]
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ
in the library at St Cloud Monastery

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21565  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Boswell
  Editor: R.W. Chapman
  Title: Life of Johnson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 653-4
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 653-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21565, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Original date of publication 1791. Johnson was in France with the Thrales.

 

 

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