Evidence: | 'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1832 and 31 Dec 1834 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Martineau |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | wife of manufacturer |
Religion: | Unitarian |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | anon |
Title: | "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | In The Times |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9712 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 307 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 307, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9712, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Song attributed to Thomas Moore; see pp.307-09 of source for Martineau's account of her response to this. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)