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Record 23160

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns here are admirable'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 21 May 1779
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Devizes
county: Wiltshire
other location: an inn
   
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 Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
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: unknown reader

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: [an epigram]
Genre: Poetry, Ephemera
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 23160  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C. Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 387
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 387, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23160, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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