Record Number: 5202
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
" ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by jotting down and completing all of the biblical citations ... As John Morrill summarizes, Dowsing 'frequently ... added to the title pages of books and sermons an index of items that were of particular interest to him; frequently he scored the margin with varying degrees of emphasis; and less usually he summarized a passage in the margin or engaged in argument with the author' ... Dowsing ... also wrote his name on his books' title pages ... along with the dates of purchase and reading ..."
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Yeoman farmer
Religion:n/a
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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:books
Genre:Other religious, Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:5202
Source:Stephen B. Dobranski
Editor:n/a
Title:Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:2005
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Page:61
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England, (Cambridge, 2005), p. 61, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5202, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from John Morrill, "William Dowsing, the Bureaucratic Puritan," in Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf (Oxford, 1993) 173-203; 182-83.