Record Number: 12724
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's "Two Years before the Mast": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and "handing" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also "The Amber Witch", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:12 Jun 1848
Country:at sea, Atlantic Ocean, between Cork and Bermuda
Timen/a
Place:other location: on board ship "Scourge", man of war
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Nov 1815
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion:Presbyterian family
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:at sea, Atlantic Ocean, between Cork and Bermuda
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Two years before the mast
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
officers' library on board a 'man of war'
Source Information:
Record ID:12724
Source:John Mitchel
Editor:n/a
Title:Jail Journal
Place of Publication:Dublin
Date of Publication:1913
Vol:n/a
Page:19
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
John Mitchel, Jail Journal, (Dublin, 1913), p. 19, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12724, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
None
