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Record 22525

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Baretti but it produces a general Effect: if you dip your Hand into the Tub at the Door, you gather up no Water but your Hand remains wet.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 28 May 1777
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: Streatham Park
   
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:Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 24 Apr 1719
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: critic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Italy
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: n/a
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ
read at the home of the Thrales

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22525  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C. Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 47
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22525, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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