Record Number: 24109
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 8 Apr 1888 and 15 Apr 1888
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Oxford
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:11 Jun 1851
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:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Gleanings Of Past Years
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
gift from Gladstone
Source Information:
Record ID:24109
Source:Janet Penrose Trevelyan
Editor:n/a
Title:The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1923
Vol:n/a
Page:60-1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London, 1923), p. 60-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24109, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The essay specified was 'The Courses of Religious Thought'.
