Record Number: 2347

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 1844

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mary Russell Mitford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1787

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

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:

Caroline Clive

Title:

The Great Drought

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Blackwood's LVI (Oct 1844) 433-53

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2347

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Mary Russell Mitford

Title:

Letter to Caroline Clive, (n.d.c. 1844)

Location:

Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford

Call No:

MS Whitfield C63

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Mary Russell Mitford, Letter to Caroline Clive, (n.d.c. 1844) Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford, p. MS Whitfield C63, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2347, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None