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Record 11010

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I think very beautiful and interesting'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 24 Jul 1862
Country: Hesse
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:

Listener:Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice"
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 25 Apr 1843
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: princess of Hesse
Religion: Protestant
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Hesse
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charles Kingsley
Title: Westward Ho!
Genre: Fiction, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11010  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Letters to Her Majesty the Queen
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1897
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 47, 49
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Alice Princess of Great Britain, Grand Duchess of Hesse , Letters to Her Majesty the Queen (London, 1897), p. 47, 49, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11010, accessed: 27 April 2024

Additional comments:

Read to by her husband, Prince Louis of Hesse

 

 

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