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Record 26776

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Tuesday, 8 April 1828: 'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy the Justice who renderd Warwickshire too hot for Shakspeare [sic] and drove him to London was still extant, We [sic] went in quest of it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 8 Apr 1828
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Warwickshire
   
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:Walter and Anne Scott
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer and daughter
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Washington Irving
Title: Sketch Book
Genre: History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1820
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26776  
Source - Print  
  Author: Walter Scott
  Editor: W. E. K. Anderson
  Title: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1972
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 454
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 454, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26776, accessed: 25 April 2024

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