Record Number: 33895

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literature of which we had a good deal on our bookshelves — theology, sermons, meditations for every day in the year, "The Whole Duty of Man", "A Call to the Unconverted", and many other old works of a similar character. Among these I found one entitled, if I remember rightly,"An Answer to the Infidel", and this work, which I took up eagerly in the expectation that it would allay those maddening doubts perpetually arising in my mind [...] reading one of the religious books entitled "The Saints Everlasting Rest" in which the pious author, Richard Baxter expatiates on and labours to make his readers realize the condition of the eternally damned [....]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1856 and 1857

Country:

Argentina

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Quilmes
La Plata, South of Buenos Aires
specific address: Los Veinte Cinco Ombus
location in dwelling: probably bedroom

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:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

Argentina

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Richard Baxter

Title:

The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first publ. 1650, edition read unknown

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33895

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1918

Vol:

n/a

Page:

304-5

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 304-5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33895, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None