Evidence: | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also for some time after dinner & supper, by w'ch means we each read about 2 hours or make everyday our young men likewise taking their books at the same time, ... except after supper on days when we had been visiting, or at the Concert, the talking over which afterwards generally furnish'd amusement for the remainder of the evening.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: at breakfast afternoon: at tea time evening: after dinner and supper |
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Place: | location in dwelling: at home | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [various] |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 7926 | |
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=7926, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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