Record Number: 9174

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjective slough as she is doing. - "Ruth" won't help us. All strewn with beauties as it is, it is sadly feeble and wrong, I think. Amidst much wrong, I think making Mr Benson such a nicompoop is fatal. What a beautiful "Cranford" Mrs Gaskell has given us again!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 11 Apr 1853

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Ambleside
county: Cumbria

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Harriet Martineau

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

12 Jun 1802

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Elizabeth Gaskell

Title:

Ruth

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9174

Source:

Print

Author:

Harriet Martineau

Editor:

Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle

Title:

Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood

Place of Publication:

Stanford

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

n/a

Page:

125

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Harriet Martineau, Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle (ed.), Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood (Stanford, 1983), p. 125, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9174, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None