Record Number: 4820

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union's magazines, at the incessant stories of poor boys who had risen to be rich and great men: 'Every month I hoped to find the story of some poor ignorant girl who ... had yet been able by her own efforts and the blessing of God ... to live a life of usefulness, if not of greatness.'"

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

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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:

Marianne Farningham

Age:

Child (0-17)

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Sunday School Union magazines

Genre:

Other religious, Fiction, Children's Lit, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4820

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:

220

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 220, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4820, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Marianne Farningham, A Working Woman's Life: An Autobiography (1907) 44.