| Evidence: | 'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of Barton, and for those six summer weeks of 1881 I lived in the book ..."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1881 and 30 Sep 1881 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Barton-on-Humber | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Janet Courtney |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 27 Nov 1865 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer; publi servant; editor |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| 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: | J. Henry Shorthouse |
| Title: | John Inglesant |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1881 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3930 | |
| 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: | 1035 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 1035, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3930, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Janet Courtney, Recollected in Tranquillity (1930) 121. |
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