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Record 23269

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it might be useful; he put a Piece of Paper he said on the Page he was reading, & so moved it when he came to the End of the Line. - where I suppose he thought the Sense naturally stopt, as it does in an Account Book. - comical enough.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 30 Nov 1780
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: other location: in a carriage
   
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:Mr Perkins
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
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: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 23269  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C. Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 461
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 461, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23269, accessed: 01 May 2024

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