Record Number: 4051

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but seems to give one on the whole a good account of the man. I tried to learn from him in my time how to be a good Christian by giving up all the creeds & deciding that there is no absurdity in holding contradictory beliefs.?

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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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:

Leslie Stephen

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Nov 1832

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Benjamin Jowett

Title:

Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett

Genre:

Biography, Collected Letters

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Edited by Evelyn Abbot and Lewis Campbell, London, 1897

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4051

Source:

Print

Author:

Leslie Stephen

Editor:

John Bicknell

Title:

The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 2 1882-1904

Place of Publication:

Ohio State University Press

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

2

Page:

473

Additional Comments:

Letter from Leslie Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (9/4/1897).

Citation:

Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 2 1882-1904 , (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 2, p. 473, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4051, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None