Record Number: 5201
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'accustomed his thoughts to such a habitude of roving, that he has scarce ever been their quiet master since, but they would take all occasions to steal away, and go a-gadding to objects then unseasonable and impertinent.'"
Century:1600-1699
Date:unknown
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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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:romance
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5201
Source:Stephen B. Dobranski
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Title:Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2005
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Page:45
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England, (Cambridge, 2005), p. 45, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5201, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Robert Boyle, "An Account of Philaretus [i.e. Mr. R. Boyle], during his Minority," in The Works of the Hnourable Robert Boyle, ed. Thomas Birch, 5 vols. (London, 1744), 1: BIV-D2r; C1r.