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Record 5776

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of Love, "a tiny Scottish chapbook of the kind sold by itinerant peddlers to the poorest readers ... [a] closely printed little book of just twenty-four pages ... a guide to the arts of courtship, including the significance of marks on different parts of the body and the meaning of dreams ... [and including] model love letters, love songs ... [etc]."
Century: 1700-1799, 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: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:
Title: The New School of Love
Genre: Fiction, Poetry, Textbook / self-education, Conduct books, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology, Astrology / alchemy / occult
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5776  
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: 89-90; 89
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 89-90; 89, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5776, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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