Evidence: | 'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for whose benefit we are come, as she has outgrown her strength - six inches in the last twelve months. - We are delighted with [italics] our [end italics] type, & that we don't print in double columns which is so trying to the eyes; we put the page of the Virginians by a page of Macmillan last night & you can't think how much more legible [italics] ours [end italics] was.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1 Nov 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Whitby county: Yorkshire specific address: 1 Abbey Terrace |
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Reading Group: | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | writer and clergyman's wife; clergyman's daughters |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
Title: | Virginians, The |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | uncertain whether book or serial version |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19269 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 586 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 586, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19269, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Mrs Gaskell to George Smith, who was about to bring out the first number of the 'Cornhill' magazine, edited by Thackeray. Exactly what 'our' type is is ambiguous. |
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