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Record Number: 19142


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the same time as my little confession of having thought his lectures worthy of your reading. I have been very much interested by your remarks which {are} will be of course still more interesting to one capable of entering into their full value'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 20 May 1854 and 22 May 1854

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Walter Savage Landor

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

30 Jan 1775

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

William Gaskell

Title:

Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, lectures

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

unknown if printed or MS

Provenance

owned
sent to him by Mrs Gaskell


Source Information:

Record ID:

19142

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Editor:

J.A.V. Chapple

Title:

Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The

Place of Publication:

Manchester

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

291

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 291, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19142, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Landor. She sent him the lectures on May 20th.

   
   
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