Evidence: | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's friends: 'A few days after, [she] brought back the book, saying [...] it was so harmless that her husband had read it aloud to the young people in the evening [having been offered another] [...] The lady and her husband read the whole series through in this way, and never could find out the "improper book."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | anon woman and husband |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Readers' children |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Harriet Martineau |
Title: | Series of Tales |
Genre: | Fiction, Social Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 9648 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 209 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9648, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
This anecdote included within section of autobiography headed '1832'. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)