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Record 7841

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of it of an evening.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Nov 1787 and 30 Nov 1787
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Chichester
   
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:John Marsh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 31 May 1752
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Musian / composer / gentleman
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Miss White
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: The Lounger
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication details: Bound as a volume?
Provenance: Borrowed (circulating library)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 7841  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Marsh
  Editor: Brian Robins
  Title: The John Marsh Journals. The life and times of a gentleman composer (1752-1828)
  Place of Publication: New York
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 421
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Marsh, Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals. The life and times of a gentleman composer (1752-1828) (New York, 1998), p. 421, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7841, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

DOB 11 June 1752 on Gregorian calendar

 

 

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