Evidence: | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818.
'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Oct 1818 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Prescott, Grote, and Company banking house, Threadneedle Street |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Grote |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 17 Nov 1794 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Banker |
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: | Jean Baptiste Say |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Social Science, Politics, Economics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25012 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Grote | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Personal Life of George Grote by Mrs Grote. Compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda, and Original Letters to and from Various Friends | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1873 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 30 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Grote, The Personal Life of George Grote by Mrs Grote. Compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda, and Original Letters to and from Various Friends (London, 1873), p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25012, accessed: 04 October 2023 |
Dates of individual diary entries not all given in source. |
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