Record Number: 11291

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences. Did ever mortal man study so many ologies, or travel with so many ometers!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Mar 1818 and 31 Mar 1818

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stoke Newington
county: Essex

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:

Lucy Aikin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1781

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Historical author and biographer

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alexander von Humboldt

Title:

Personal Narrative of Travels

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Science

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

11291

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Hemery Le Breton

Title:

Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1864

Vol:

n/a

Page:

114

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Hemery Le Breton (ed.), Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, (London, 1864), p. 114, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11291, accessed: 24 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None