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Record 19285

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be grateful enough to write this letter'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 5 Apr 1860
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: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: George Eliot [pseud]
Title: Mill on the Floss, The
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
present from George Smith

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19285  
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: 611
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 611, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19285, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to George Smith. Maybe she has not read any of it yet but it is inconceivable that she did not on that day!

 

 

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