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Record 3196

Reading Experience:

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."'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1918
Country: England
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:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Title: Life of Scott
Genre: Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 10 vols.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3196  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

Quotation from Agnes Fry, A Memoir of The Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry (1921) 262.

 

 

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