Record Number: 9454
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great deal of information that was very entertaining, and that had not reached me before [...] I still observe in it some long sentences, which it would have been very easy for you, I should have thought, to have broken up [...] You have not always remembered that you are writing for an English, not a French public -- where not only men, but men, women, and children, read, when a book is considered worth reading.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 24 Apr 1828 and 31 Dec 1828
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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Academic
Religion:unknown
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 Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1)
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsApril 1828
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:9454
Source:n/a
Editor:Lady Theresa Lewis
Title:Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1865
Vol:3
Page:373
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852, (London, 1865), 3, p. 373, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9454, accessed: 30 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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