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Record 25400

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Place; drank tea with [Charles] Cameron; we conversed about Kant, and read some of Bentham upon Legislation.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 25 Mar 1819
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: London
specific address: Palsgrave Place
   
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:

Reading Group:George Grote and Charles Cameron
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Banker and friend
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: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jeremy Bentham
Title: 'upon Legislation'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Law
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 25400  
Source - Print  
  Author: Harriet Grote
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Personal Life of George 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: 36
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Harriet Grote, The Personal Life of George Grote. Compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda, and Original Letters to and from Various Friends (London, 1873), p. 36, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25400, accessed: 01 May 2024

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