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Record 3699

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM. 5.45 I have done it! both pipe & article."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: evening: 5 pm
Place: city: Cambridge
specific address: Trinity 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:Leslie Stephen
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Nov 1832
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion: Christian
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:
Title: Christie's Faith
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3699  
Source - Print  
  Author: Leslie Stephen
  Editor: John Bicknell
  Title: The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882.
  Place of Publication: Ohio State University Press
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 40
  Additional comments: From the editor's footnote: "Leslie's review of this long-forgotten novel appeared in the Saturday review, 23, 19 January 1867" (p. 42, n. 3).

Citation: Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882. (Ohio State University Press, 1996), p. 40, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3699, accessed: 26 April 2024

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