| Evidence: | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader, referred to in annotations as "Mr L", known to be from Lichfield, twenty years Johnson's junior, and also a pupil at Lichfield Grammar School and student at Pembroke College, Oxford; annotations date from 1793 to 1800. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1793 and 1800 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mr L. |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1729 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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 |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Title: | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 3 vols. London: Dilly, 1793 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5558 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 171 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 171, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5558, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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