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Record Number: 5127


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for our young minds,' Lucy reported in her diary. She was eighteen at the time."

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

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:

George Eiiot

Title:

Adam Bede

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

5127

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart

Title:

Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts

Place of Publication:

Baltimore

Date of Publication:

1992

Vol:

n/a

Page:

184 n.12

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart (ed.), Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts (Baltimore, 1992), p. 184 n.12, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5127, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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