Evidence: | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon," and if I have not been quite so much delighted as I supposed, I have yet been highly gratified by becoming more intimately acquainted with the person and character of a great man whom I had before only admired at an immense distance [goes on to criticise Lord Sheffield's editorship of the work].' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1796 and 8 May 1796 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Playfair |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1748 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Academic |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon |
Genre: | History, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Edited by Lord Sheffield |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8822 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Lady Theresa Lewis | |
Title: | Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1865 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 6 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 2, p. 6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8822, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
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