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Record 24311

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while her husband was fighting in the Boer war], in a translation into English of the "Pensees" of Joubert; their consultations over the fine shades of his meaning, while the bees hummed in the lime tree on the lawn, became the light and relaxation of her days, while, later on, the Introduction she contributed to the book helped its appearance with the public'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 May 1900 and 1 Sep 1900
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Aldbury
county: Hertfordshire
specific address: stocks Cottage, on Mrs Ward's estate
   
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:Katherine Lyttelton
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: soldier's wife
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: Joseph Joubert
Title: Pensees
Genre: Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: in French
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24311  
Source - Print  
  Author: Janet Penrose Trevelyan
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1923
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 175
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London, 1923), p. 175, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24311, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

read in order to translate; translation appeared 1899.

 

 

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