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Record 5400

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Countess Guiccioli would 'be cited as an instance of conjugal happiness,' by giving the counterevidence of a contemporary: 'yet Trelawney told me he was wearied to death by her fondness --'"
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
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:Walter Savage Landor
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1775
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington
Genre: Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5400  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 76
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 76, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5400, accessed: 25 April 2024

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