Record Number: 12743
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" (Sobieski's Siege - a grand page of history spun out into many hundred pages of pitiful romance, and interwoven with a love-story); a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Nov 1848 and 2 Dec 1848
Country:Bermuda
Timen/a
Place:other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda
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:3 Nov 1815
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion:Presbyterian family
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Bermuda
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Siege of Vienna]
Genre:Fiction, History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
probably from the library on the prison hulk
Source Information:
Record ID:12743
Source:John Mitchel
Editor:n/a
Title:Jail Journal
Place of Publication:Dublin
Date of Publication:1913
Vol:n/a
Page:97
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
John Mitchel, Jail Journal, (Dublin, 1913), p. 97, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12743, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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