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Record 4275

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious conversation with a view to instruction.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Amelia Opie
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 12 Nov 1769
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Father was a physician
Occupation: Writer
Religion: PresbYterian/ Quaker 1825 onwards
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:
Title: Scriptures
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4275  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Eliot McGregor
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend
  Place of Publication: Wisconsin
  Date of Publication: 1933
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 75
  Additional comments: Letter to Joseph John Gurney (13/6/1814), Gurney MS., 325.

Citation: Margaret Eliot McGregor, Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend (Wisconsin, 1933), p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4275, accessed: 23 April 2024

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