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Record 5719

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, which were cut up and pasted into the relevant sections of the text by Mangin.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 1817
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:Hester Lynch Piozzi
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1741
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Wales
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: James Andrew Pettit
Title: Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Dublin, 1789
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5719  
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: 276 n.5
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 276 n.5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5719, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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