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Record Number: 4642


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant on reading Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses" together with her mother one morning. First they were interrupted by the housemaid ... then by a man servant ... then by the cook ... by the nursemaid ... by a maid ... by Emily's younger brother ... by the man servant announcing a visitor.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1830 and 31 Dec 1834

Country:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Emily Shore and mother

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Joshua Reynolds

Title:

Discourses on Art

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4642

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

196

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4642, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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