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Record 16688

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from the Annuals and "Our Village" - so well do the savages know how to make their papers sell - but I have not seen, what I chiefly [sic] sought, any account of the noble tragedy, three acts of which you read to me when I last saw you.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1829 and 20 Jan 1829
Country: America
Time: n/a
Place: Cincinnati
   
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:Frances Trollope
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 10 Mar 1780
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Author
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: America
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: also known as Fanny Trollope or Mrs Trollope

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Title: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16688  
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: 191
  Additional comments: Letter from Mrs [Fanny] Trollope to Miss Mitford, Cincinnati, January 20, 1829

Citation: A.G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (London, 1882), 1, p. 191, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16688, accessed: 28 March 2024

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