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Record 22683

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one of him [sic] told him that the other had been reading Chillingworth for the last week very diligently leaving a [italics] Mark [end italics] always in the place he left off, which his [italics] Chumm [end italics] moved a few pages backward every Day, & so forced him unknown to himself to go over the same Ground without advancing one Jot or ever finding the Joke out'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 31 Oct 1728 and 1 Dec 1729
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Oxford
specific address: Pembroke College
   
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: anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: student
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: a friend of Johnson

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Chillingworth
Title: Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22683  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 99
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I , p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22683, accessed: 29 March 2024

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