Record Number: 8554
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I read through the whole four volumes of this sensible pleasing work; it was wrote by the late Mr Amory of Wakefield, and I know not of any work more proper to be put into the hands of a poor ignorant bigotted superstititous methodist... In short I saw that true religion was no way incompatible with or an enemy to rational pleasures of any kind. ... I now also began to read with great pleasure the rational and moderate divines of all denominations.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Feb 1776 and 28 Feb 1767
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:11 Sep 1746
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Journeyman shoemaker
Religion:Wesleyan
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The life of John Buncle
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1756-66
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:8554
Source:James Lackington
Editor:n/a
Title:Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1791
Vol:n/a
Page:164-7
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Lackington, Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington, (London, 1791), p. 164-7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8554, accessed: 17 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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