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Record 5665

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over."
Century: 1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
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:

Reader:anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
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 Eliot
Title: Middlemarch
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 4 vols, Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1873
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5665  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 210-11
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 210-11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5665, accessed: 23 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source author notes that copy of text inscribed by G. H. Lewes, and that the annotations possibly by Mrs Trubner, its "original recipient".

 

 

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