Evidence: | And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursing my folly in having put no books into my portmanteau. The only book I have seen here, is one which lies upon the sofa. It is entitled ?Field Exercises and Evolutions of the Army by Sir Henry Torrens.? I have read it through so often, that I am sure I could drill a hundred recruits from memory.
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1835 and 11 Jan 1835 | ||||||||||
Country: | UK | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Chelmsford specific address: Black Boy Hotel |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journalist, writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | UK |
Country of experience: | UK |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Torrens [Sir] |
Title: | Field exercises and evolutions of the army |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Military history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1824 |
Provenance: | Found |
Record ID: | 5056 | |
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Author: | Charles Dickens | |
Editor: | Madeline House | |
Title: | The letters of Charles Dickens | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 54 | |
Additional comments: | Additional editor: Graham Storey. The Pilgrim edition. Letter to Thomas Beard from Charles Dickens dated 11/01/1835. |
Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5056, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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