| Evidence: | ''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the door closed behind the other chapel-goers, I looked at the books on the table. The ugliest-looking of them was turned down open; and my turning it up was one of the leading incidents of my life. That plain, clumsy, calf-bound volume was "Paradise Lost";...there was something about Satan cleaving Chaos, which made me turn to the poetry; and my mental destiny was fixed for the next seven years.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 12 Jun 1810 and 11 Jun 1811 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | afternoon: Sunday | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Norwich county: Norfolk |
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| Reader: | Harriet Martineau |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 12 Jun 1802 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder child of manufacturer |
| Occupation: | child |
| Religion: | Unitarian 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 |
| Author: | John Milton |
| Title: | Paradise Lost |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Smith, Elder, & Co,. 15 Waterloo Place, London |
| Provenance: | owned Copy owned by her family |
| Record ID: | 6624 | |
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| Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 42 | |
| Additional comments: | Smith, Elder, & Co,. 15 Waterloo Place, London. Third edition. In 3 volumes. |
| Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 42, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6624, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Initial experience was silent & solitary, some of the subsequent reading was done with company present. |
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