Record Number: 12729

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedos" - for I have been ten days on board - when Dr Hall entered my cabin in a violent hurry, accompanied by a negro boatman.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

9 Jul 1848

Country:

Bermuda

Time

daytime

Place:

other location: on board hospital hulk (ship) Tenedos, moored at Bermuda

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Mitchel

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:

Bermuda

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Livy

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
probably given to him by the officers when leaving the "Scourge"

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12729

Source:

Print

Author:

John Mitchel

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Jail Journal

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Date of Publication:

1913

Vol:

n/a

Page:

44-45

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

John Mitchel, Jail Journal, (Dublin, 1913), p. 44-45, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12729, accessed: 19 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None