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Record 4021

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depressed state of mind to read'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 14 Jan 1898
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: city: London
   
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:Kate Perugini
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 30 Oct 1839
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: n/a
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4021  
Source - Print  
  Author: Lucinda Hawksley
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 313
  Additional comments: Letter from Kate Perugini (nee Dickens) to George Bernard Shaw, 14 Jan 1898.

Citation: Lucinda Hawksley, Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (London, 2006), p. 313, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4021, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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