Evidence: | '[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says he a strange Account of a Beast which however is dead, & I believe there are no more of them in England, it was a horrible one though with a long Tail, & was of the Serpent kind I think; he eat people up and [italics] churned [end italics] them into [italics] Gobbets [end italics] the Book says, - what the Devil Beast could this be says my Father? what was its name Jemmy? The [italics] Blatant Beast [end italics]. as I remember replied Mathias - he had been reading Spenser's Fairy Queen'.
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 30 Sep 1777 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: in the countryside, on holiday | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Mathias |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | merchant |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Edmund Spenser |
Title: | Faerie Queene, The |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22705 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hester Lynch Thrale | |
Editor: | Katharine C. Balderston | |
Title: | Thraliana | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1951 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 148 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22705, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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