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Record 8336

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 1 Oct 1861
Country: England
Time: evening
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:George Eliot [pseud.]
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 22 Nov 1819
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
Religion: unknown
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: Charles Lewes
Title: [compositions]
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown, compositions
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
belonged to Charles Lewes

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8336  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Eliot
  Editor: Margaret Harris
  Title: The Journals of George Eliot
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 102
  Additional comments: co-editor Judith Johnston

Citation: George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 102, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8336, accessed: 29 March 2024

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