Evidence: | 'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had nothing to put down: but last two days, read a little of Cicero's Second Philippic, Voltaire's Siecle de Louis XVI, Coleridge's Journey to the West Indies; bought some books...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jul 1833 and 3 Jul 1833 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Greville |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 2 Apr 1794 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | civil servant and diarist |
Religion: | Christian |
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: | Cicero |
Title: | Second Philippic |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8424 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Greville | |
Editor: | Edward Pearce | |
Title: | The Diaries of Charles Greville | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 118 | |
Additional comments: | Diary entry for 3 July 1833 |
Citation: | Charles Greville, Edward Pearce (ed.), The Diaries of Charles Greville (London, 2006), p. 118, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8424, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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