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Record 5764

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury" (1783).
Century: 1700-1799
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: anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Richard Watson
Title: A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
Genre: Other religious, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Evans, 1783
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5764  
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: 30-33; 31
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 30-33; 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5764, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source author suggests reader a member of clergy.

 

 

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