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Record 3620

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice & the hapiness of virtue.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 29 Mar 1797
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: location in dwelling: home
   
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:Joseph Hunter
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 Mar 1783
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: School boy
Religion: Presbyterian
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: Elizabeth Inchbald
Title: Nature and Art
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3620  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Joseph Hunter
  Title: Journal of Joseph Hunter 1797-1799
  Location: British Library
  Call no: ADD 24, 879
  Page/folio: 5

Citation: Joseph Hunter, Journal of Joseph Hunter 1797-1799 British Library, p. ADD 24, 879, p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3620, accessed: 19 April 2024

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