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Record 4714

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" as she went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: night
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:

Reader:Susan Mitchell
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Moore
Title: A Mummer's Wife
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4714  
Source - Print  
  Author: Kate Flint
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Woman Reader 1837-1914
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 212
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 212, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4714, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Susan L. Mitchell, "George Moore" (1916) 43.

 

 

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