Evidence: | 'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shakspere by firelight in winter in the drawing-room. My mother was kind enough to allow this breach of good family manners; and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily [...] Our newspaper was the Globe'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1816 and 31 Dec 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Norwich location in dwelling: Drawing room |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Harriet Martineau |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 12 Jun 1802 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Child; later writer |
Religion: | Unitarian |
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: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9607 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 70 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9607, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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