| Evidence: | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphatically aloud. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pope's Homer, Cicero's Letters, Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia, Dr Johnson's Rasselas, with many other works of established reputation. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 01 Apr 1814 and 30 Oct 1814 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning: at breakfast | ||||||||||
| Place: | London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Cole |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 03 Oct 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | publisher/bookseller |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| 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: | Salomon Gessner |
| Title: | The Death of Abel |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 2230 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | John Cole | |
| Title: | An Account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829) | |
| Location: | York Minster Archive | |
| Call no: | Add Mss 153/1 | |
| Page/folio: | pp.98-99 |
| Citation: | John Cole, An Account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started Scarborough 1829) York Minster Archive, p. Add Mss 153/1, p. pp.98-99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2230, accessed: 06 December 2023 | |
| John Cole kept diaries throughout his life - and then used the diaries to produce a manuscript 'An Account of the life of John Cole of Scarborough (started in 1829 - 18 volumes). Much of the substance of the MS is based on his diaries (and appears for much of the MS to be copied direct from his diaries). The original diaries do not appear to exist any more. |
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