Record Number: 3884
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull, I guess, as 19th century ditto. Indeed they are possibly stupider in some respects, though not quite so full of lying."
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:28 Nov 1832
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion:Christian
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:[18th and 19th century sermons]
Genre:Sermon
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3884
Source:Leslie Stephen
Editor:John Bicknell
Title:The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882
Place of Publication:Ohio State University Press
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:1
Page:147
Additional Comments:
Letter from Leslie Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (25/12/1874).
Citation:
Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882, (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 1, p. 147, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3884, accessed: 25 April 2025
Additional Comments:
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