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Record 22486

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise when I was learning that Language in December 1756 or January 1757 I forget which'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Dec 1756 and 31 Jan 1757
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Hester Lynch Salusbury
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 27 Jan 1741
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Wales
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: later Mrs Thrale

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Life of Cervantes
Genre: Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: in Spanish; prefixed to an edition of 'Don Quixote'
Provenance: owned
her father's

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22486  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C. Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 3
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22486, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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