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Record Number: 4643


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the room of a Government clerk who was out all day.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

location in dwelling: under sofa of second-floor room

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:

Frances Mary Buss

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Unknown

Form of Text:

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4643

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

196

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4643, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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