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Record 19479

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 21 Oct 1812
Country: Scotland
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:Sophia Scott
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1799
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer's daughter
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Crabbe
Title: Tales in verse
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
owned by her father

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19479  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Crabbe
  Editor: Thomas Faulkner
  Title: Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1985
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 91-2
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 91-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19479, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter from Walter Scott to Crabbe.

 

 

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