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Record 22595

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay was in India 1835,1836." Multiple dates of reading include 1903, 1920, 1924. P.71, referring to his childhood notes: "What a funny mean, little hand I wrote seventy five years ago at Harrow! Do I write better now?" P.428: "Golden poetry indeed! I have now finished a long course of Greek drama, having read the whole of Euripides at least once, and eight or ten of his plays twice or even thrice. I shall now confine myself to history - to Herodotus, Tacitus, Thucydides, and Suetonius. When I have finished all of them once more, or probably even sooner, I shall be finished myself. January 16 1925 Welcombe."
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: Between 1854 and 1925
Country: England
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:

Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 20 Jul 1838
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Historian and statesman
Religion: Christian
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: Sophocles
Title: Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites
Genre: Classics, Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman,1846
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22595  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: MS notes in book cited below.,

Citation: MS notes in book cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22595, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

I have not transcribed all the MS notes.

 

 

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