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Record 19273

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead [?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 30 Nov 1859
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Manchester
specific address: 42 Plymouth Grove
   
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:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 29 Sep 1810
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer and clergyman's wife
Religion: Unitarian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Francis Mahoney
Title: [Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout']
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Cornhill Magazine, Jan 1860
Provenance: owned
sent by George Smith

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19273  
Source - Print  
  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: 593-4
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 593-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19273, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to George Smith.

 

 

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