Record Number: 15001
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I find it so well writ, as I think it too good for him ever to have writ it - and it is a serious sort of book, and not fit for everybody to read.'
Century:1600-1699
Date:12 Feb 1669
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: London
location in dwelling: at home
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
passive in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:23 Oct 1640
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:wife of Clerk of the Acts, Admiralty
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Samuel Pepys, her husband
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ...
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1668
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:15001
Source:Samuel Pepys
Editor:Robert Latham
Title:The diary of Samuel Pepys
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:8
Page:446
Additional Comments:
Co-editor William Matthews
Citation:
Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys, (London, 1970), 8, p. 446, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=15001, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
None