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Record 16682

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of the public changes your mode of expression? Some of your sketches I like very much. "Hannah" I had read before, as well as the "Talking Lady," with whose portrait I was particularly struck...'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1824 and 19 May 1824
Country: England
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:

Reader:Eleanor Anne Franklin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1793
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Author
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: nee Porden

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Title: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1824
Provenance: owned
given by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16682  
Source - Print  
  Author: A.G. L'Estrange
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1882
  Vol: 1
  Page: 152
  Additional comments: Letter from Mrs Franklin (nee Eleanor Anne Porden) to Miss Mitford, from Devonshire Street, May 19, 1824

Citation: A.G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (London, 1882), 1, p. 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16682, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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