Evidence: | Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle-Wm Blackwood, Edinburgh + London, 1822.[...]It is a singularly interesting pathetic story, doubly so because told as truth + not improbable [...] I read and roared over this thing till my head ached [...] |
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Date: | 8 Dec 1823 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning daytime: 11 am to 3.10 pm |
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Place: | location in dwelling: Home, upstairs | ||||||||||
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton |
Title: | Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) |
Record ID: | 3169 | |
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Author: | Anne Lister | |
Editor: | Helena Whitbread | |
Title: | I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 317-318 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread (ed.), I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840 (London, 1988), p. 317-318, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3169, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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