| Evidence: | 'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editors note: 'Then follow three pages of extracts from the above named poem, very accurately done']. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 13 Nov 1832 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Potton county: Bedfordshire other location: Parent's home |
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| Reader: | Emily Shore |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 25 Dec 1819 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer Child of schoolteacher father and author mother |
| Occupation: | child |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Presumably reading the same copy of Spenser's poems referred to in other entries |
| Author: | Edmund Spenser |
| Title: | 'Mother Hubbard's Tale' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Probably the same Elizabethan edition referred to in earlier entries in journal |
| Provenance: | borrowed (private library) Text belonged to her father |
| Record ID: | 16587 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Shore Emily | |
| Editor: | Barbara Timm-Gates | |
| Title: | Journal of Emily Shore | |
| Place of Publication: | Chrlottesville and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 24 | |
| Additional comments: | Reprint (with some additional material) of 1891 edition of Shore's journal. |
| Citation: | Shore Emily, Barbara Timm-Gates (ed.), Journal of Emily Shore (Chrlottesville and London, 1991), p. 24, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16587, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| From edited diary |
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