Record Number: 19301

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art & Study in Italy, - thank you [italics] so [end italics] much for it'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 16 Apr 1861

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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

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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 and clergyman's wife

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Eliot Norton

Title:

Notes of Travel and Study in Italy

Genre:

Geography / Travel, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
given by Norton

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19301

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:

646

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 646, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19301, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton. Meta had had her tonsils removed.