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Record Number: 4093


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxious bridesmaids and supported up the aisle, with the marked gallantry of true tenderness by her happy bridegroom Sir John Hunter.?

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

Ireland

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:

Charles Robert Maturin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1782

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Curate

Religion:

Christian (Church of England)

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

Ireland

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Maria Edgeworth

Title:

Tales of Fashionable Life

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London, 1809

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4093

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Robert Maturin

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The British Review and London Critical Journal

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1818

Vol:

xi (1818)

Page:

45

Additional Comments:

Review article (unsigned) on the publication of Edgeworth's Harrington and Ormond (1817).

Citation:

Charles Robert Maturin, The British Review and London Critical Journal (1818), xi (1818), p. 45, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4093, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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