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Record 5960

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to the deep reflection of my study [...] was easier than I expected: how much more was I pleased with myself whilst thus exercising the faculties of a reasonable mind, in endeavouring to discover the sources of those faculties, to form them properly; to improve them, than when I was dipping a curtsey to one, forcing a smile for another, hearing nonsense from a 3rd or what is worse talking nonsense to a fourth.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 19 Feb 1779
Country: England
Time: evening: after a party
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:Anna Larpent
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1758
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Diplomat's daughter and civil servant's wife
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Locke
Title: Essay on human understanding
Genre: Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Abridged version by Winn
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5960  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Anna Larpent
  Title: Diaries
  Location: Huntingdon Library
  Call no: HM 31201
  Page/folio: Date 19 Feb 1779

Citation: Anna Larpent, Diaries Huntingdon Library, p. HM 31201, p. Date 19 Feb 1779, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5960, accessed: 28 March 2024

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