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Record Number: 10874


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred * the offending phrase in the body of the text.] 'Gray uses the same epithat in his church-yard Elegy:"Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust"'. [Title page signed] 'Charlotte Susannah Fry From Mr R.Bowyer 1815.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1815 and 31 Dec 1815

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charlotte Sussannah Fry

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Rogers

Title:

'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

10874

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Charlotte Susannah Fry

Title:

Poems by Samuel Rogers, 1812

Location:

St.Clair collection (private).

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

end pages, and in text

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Charlotte Susannah Fry, Poems by Samuel Rogers, 1812, St.Clair collection (private)., end pages, and in text, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10874, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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