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Record 8779

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 23 Jan 1869
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)
G.H. Lewes
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: unknown
Title: [Italian story]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: in Italian
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8779  
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: 134
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8779, accessed: 28 March 2024

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