Evidence: | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 29 Jun 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Auchencairn county: Dumfriesshire |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Henrietta Jenkin |
Title: | Cousin Stella |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned sent by George Smith |
Record ID: | 19253 | |
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: | 562 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 562, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19253, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to George Smith |
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