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Record 3079

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 14 Sep 1817
Country: England
Time: morning: 'Before breakfast'
Place: city: Halifax
specific address: Haugh-end at the home of the Priestley's just outside Halifax
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
passive in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Anne Lister
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 3 Apr 1791
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: heir to land and industrial property at Shibden Hall, near halifax, Yorks. [inherits 1824]
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Euclid
Title: The Elements
Genre: Classics, Textbook / self-education, Science, Mathematics, Technology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3079  
Source - Print  
  Author: Anne Lister
  Editor: Helena Whitbread
  Title: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 15
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread (ed.), The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840 (London, 1988), p. 15, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3079, accessed: 28 March 2024

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