| Evidence: | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very small. We however at the library (consisting of about 400 volumes) got Mrs Smiths [sic] novel of "Celestina" & "Humphrey Clinker" to amuse us.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 4 Sep 1792 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Devon | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reading Group: | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
They may have read aloud to each other for amusement: John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charlotte Smith |
| Title: | Celestina |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | Borrowed (circulating library) |
| Record ID: | 7846 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 524 | |
| 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. 524, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7846, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
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