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Record Number: 28837


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

21 Nov 1830

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire

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:

William Ewart Gladstone

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

29 12 1809

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

Student at Oxford University

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas William Lancaster

Title:

The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Oxford: Printed at the University Press for J. Parker, 1825

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28837

Source:

Print

Author:

William Gladstone

Editor:

Foot M.R.D.

Title:

The Gladstone Diaries

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

1

Page:

330

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Gladstone, Foot M.R.D. (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries, (Oxford, 1968), 1, p. 330, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28837, accessed: 27 February 2026


Additional Comments:

Footnote in Foot's edition identifies this text. There is no copy at the Hawarden Library. It is the only edition of this text published at this date.