Evidence: | 'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Hopley'; it is a series of most unnatural adventures, naturally told, in a common-place way; but some people can't even be common-place naturally. They just interest one in certain states of the mind in which one is too lazy for thought or any high feeling, and only [italics] up [end italics] to being a bit occupied by scenes passed before you without much connexion, like those unrolling views we show children. Oh dear!'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 2 Nov 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Port Madoc | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author and clergyman's wife |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Catherine Crowe |
Title: | Susan Hopley |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19008 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 60 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19008, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Catherine Winkworth. |
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