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Record Number: 572


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and I am only now towards the end of the second volume. I am greatly interested, and more than ever admiring the way in which your powerful yet truth-loving imagination proves able to deal with the mazes of Human Nature.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Aug 1890

Country:

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Time

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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:

A.W. Kinglake

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

5 Aug 1809

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Lawyer and writer

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:

Margaret Oliphant

Title:

In Trust

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

n/a


Source Information:

Record ID:

572

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill

Title:

The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

374-5

Additional Comments:

Letter from A.W.Kinglake to Mrs Oliphant, 25 August [1890]

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill (ed.), The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant (1974), p. 374-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=572, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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