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Record Number: 2709


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 30 Sep 1889 and 03 Oct 1889

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: village of Varazze

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:

Grace Macaulay

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1855

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

wife of academic

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

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

daughter Margaret


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Charlotte M. Yonge

Title:

The Chaplet of Pearls

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

2709

Source:

Print

Author:

Alice Crawford

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay

Place of Publication:

Madison

Date of Publication:

1995

Vol:

n/a

Page:

159

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Alice Crawford, Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay (Madison, 1995), p. 159, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2709, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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