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Record Number: 19154


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper marks, which I found had not been taken out of the book, before it was packed up, will, in a small degree, show you how much I have had to refer to in it'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 19 Jul 1856

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Manchester
specific address: 84 Plymouth Grove

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:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Sep 1810

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer, clergyman's wife

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:

Title:

[book on Yorkshire]

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)
lent by Howard Ryland


Source Information:

Record ID:

19154

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:

396

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 396, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19154, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Howard Ryland. She was writing her Life of Bronte.

   
   
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