Record Number: 22595
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay was in India 1835,1836." Multiple dates of reading include 1903, 1920, 1924. P.71, referring to his childhood notes: "What a funny mean, little hand I wrote seventy five years ago at Harrow! Do I write better now?" P.428: "Golden poetry indeed! I have now finished a long course of Greek drama, having read the whole of Euripides at least once, and eight or ten of his plays twice or even thrice. I shall now confine myself to history - to Herodotus, Tacitus, Thucydides, and Suetonius. When I have finished all of them once more, or probably even sooner, I shall be finished myself. January 16 1925 Welcombe."
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1854 and 1925
Country:England
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Place:n/a
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:
Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:20 Jul 1838
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Historian and statesman
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites
Genre:Classics, Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman,1846
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:22595
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
MS notes in book cited below.
Additional Information:
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Citation:
MS notes in book cited below., http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22595, accessed: 01 October 2024
Additional Comments:
I have not transcribed all the MS notes.