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Record 12208

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, which my Grannie cut open and inside there were piles and piles of the most beautiful delightful wonderful fairy tale books all painted with pictures ? I thought they would never come to an end but alas! in a week we had read them all. They were called the Felix Summerly series'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1846 and 30 Jun 1846
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Paris
location in dwelling: grandmother's house
   
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:

Reader:Anne Isabella Thackeray
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1837
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: daughter of novelist and journalist
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: later Anne Thackeray Ritchie

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sir Henry Cole
Title: The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12208  
Source - Print  
  Author: Winifred Gerin
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1983
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 21
  Additional comments: Gerin quotes from the manuscript source: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Memoir for Laura (MS written for her niece Laura Stephen), Private collection of Belinda Norman-Butler?

Citation: Winifred Gerin, Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography (Oxford, 1983), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12208, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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