| Evidence: | " ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near friends' ..." |
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| Century: | 1500-1599, 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | location in dwelling: library | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Donne |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | various texts |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5228 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Stephen B. Dobranski | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | n/a | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 49 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England p. 49, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5228, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from John Donne, Selected Prose 127. |
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