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Record Number: 9329


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily"..."our newspaper was the Globe,"

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

1816

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

Norwich
Norfolk
at home

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

passive in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Harriet Martineau

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

12 Jun 1802

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

schoolgirl

Religion:

Christian - Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Family are nearby, not clear if they are in the same room or not.


Additional Comments:

At the family home



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Globe (Newspaper)

Genre:

Newspaper - The Globe

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

1816

Provenance

unknown
owned by family


Source Information:

Record ID:

9329

Source:

Print

Author:

Harriet Martineau

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Place of Publication:

London.15 Waterloo Place. Smith,Elder & Co

Date of Publication:

1877

Vol:

1

Page:

70

Additional Comments:

"the great calamity of my deafness was now opening upon me". This was why she was allowed to go off and read.

Citation:

Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London.15 Waterloo Place. Smith,Elder & Co, 1877), 1, p. 70, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=9329, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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