Record Number: 2200

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all rubbed off,which supposses the passage to be streight, but how they could force the Duck into so difficult a way or whither anything of this is more than Conjecture must be left to every ones liberty to judge.

Century:

1600-1699

Date:

Between 01 Jan 1694 and 31 Dec 1694

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Celia Fiennes

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

7 Jun 1662

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Traveller and writer

Religion:

Puritan

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:

William Camden

Title:

Britannia

Genre:

History, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2200

Source:

Print

Author:

Christopher Morris

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

63

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Christopher Morris, The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, (London, 1984), p. 63, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2200, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Her own memoirs distributed amongst family and friends