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Record 22546

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and reread, by many Macaulays and Trevelyans. June 9 1928". With a note by this in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "Only nine weeks before he died."
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 9 Jun 1928 and 18 Jun 1928
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cambo
county: Northumberland
specific address: Wallington Hall
   
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:George Otto Trevelyan
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 20 Jul 1838
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Historian and statesman
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Frances Trollope
Title: The ward of Thorpe-Combe
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London: Richard Bentley, 1842
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22546  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: MS notes in book cited below.,

Citation: MS notes in book cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22546, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Additional MS notes not transcribed

 

 

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