Record Number: 12084
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from that dismal extremity of qualmishness into which I am accustomed to sink when I have ?the blue above and the blue below?. I have always thought that the ?silence wheresoe?er I go? is a beautiful touch of Barry Cornwall?s (otherwise Procter) descriptive of the depression produced by sea-voyaging. I know it?s remarkably silent wherever I go, when I?m on the briny.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:2 Jul 1837
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Calais
specific address: Hotel Rignolle
(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:7 Feb 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Journalist/ Novelist
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Examiner
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper, Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12084
Source:Charles Dickens
Editor:Madeline House
Title:The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:1
Page:280
Additional Comments:
Graham Storey ed. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.
Citation:
Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839, (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 280, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12084, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter to John Forster.