Evidence: | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepys and the Navy, Frederick the Great, Wordsworth, Shelley, Napoleon, where the speaking was of high level and the debating power considerable."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1865 and 1935 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 2502 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Lettice Milne Rae | |
Title: | Ladies in Debate: Being a History of the Ladies? Edinburgh Debating Society 1865-1935 | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 1936 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 63 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Lettice Milne Rae (ed.), Ladies in Debate: Being a History of the Ladies? Edinburgh Debating Society 1865-1935 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 63, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2502, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Members of the society read the texts before the debates. |
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