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Record Number: 3777


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter that Princess "Beatrice has ..."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1884 and 31 Dec 1886

Country:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Princess Beatrice

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Princess, member of Royal family

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Edna Lyall

Title:

We Two

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

3777

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

875 n.127

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 875 n.127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3777, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from letter from Queen Victoria of 17 February 1886 in Agatha Ramm, ed., Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901 (1990) 30.

   
   
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