Evidence: | 'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it at one long morning sitting - hardly stirring between breakfast and dinner. I cannot tell you how much I like it, and for such numbers of reasons. First, because you know of a varnish that is as good or better than black-lead for grates (only I wonder what it is). Next, because of the little sentences of real deep wisdom which from their depth and true foundation may be real helps in every direction and to every person; and for the quiet continual devout references to God which make the book a holy one'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1858 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author and clergyman's wife |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Florence Nightingale |
Title: | Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army |
Genre: | Medicine |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | privately printed 1858 - vol II |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19230 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 522 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 522, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19230, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter to Florence Nightingale |
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