Evidence: | ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- "and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life."' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | Sir Edward Fry |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1827 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Judge/arbitrator |
Religion: | Quaker |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Gibson Lockhart |
Title: | Life of Scott |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 10 vols. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3196 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Philip Waller | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 182 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 182, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3196, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Quotation from Agnes Fry, A Memoir of The Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry (1921) 262. |
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