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Record 19239

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which piety & virtue live) are keeping pace, as they should do - She works away at German & Greek - reads carefully many books, - with a fineness of perception & relish which delights me...'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 9 Mar 1859
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Manchester
specific address: 42 Plymouth Grove
   
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:Margaret Emily Gaskell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1837
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: clergyman's daughter
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [unknown]
Title: [unknown]
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19239  
Source - Print  
  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: 536
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 536, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19239, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton

 

 

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