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Record 28835

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 31 Oct 1828
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire
   
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:William Ewart Gladstone
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender n/a
Date of Birth 1809
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: Student at Oxford University
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Fynes Clinton
Title: Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece
Genre: Classics, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Gladstone's Library Includes the edition published by Oxford University Press. 3 vols, 1827-34.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28835  
Source - Print  
  Author: William Gladstone
  Editor: Foot M.R.D.
  Title: The Gladstone Diaries
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1968
  Vol: 1
  Page: 209
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: William Gladstone, Foot M.R.D. (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries (Oxford, 1968), 1, p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28835, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Footnote in Foot's edition identifies this text. Gladstone's own copy is at Hawarden Library. It is not annotated. Gladstone's Library Includes the edition published by Oxford University Press. 3 vols, 1827-34.

 

 

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