Evidence: | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this (who had before seldom evinced much taste for reading) I told him that as the book was borrow'd by Miss Poole he must get thro' it much faster than he did books in general, of w'ch a very few pages at a time... used to satisfy him. This book however, seem'd to catch his attention & he soon got through it, since w'ch time tho' he has never become a thorough reader, he has continued much more of one than he ever was before.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 5 Apr 1793 and 12 Apr 1793 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Chichester location in dwelling: home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Marsh |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | son of Musian / composer / gentleman |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | son John Marsh, author of the journals |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | Life of Pope Sixtus V |
Genre: | Other religious, History, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) Borrowed from a friend who had borrowed it from the library |
Record ID: | 7924 | |
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: | 536 | |
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. 536, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7924, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
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