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Record 19253

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 29 Jun 1859
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Auchencairn
county: Dumfriesshire
   
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: Henrietta Jenkin
Title: Cousin Stella
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
sent by George Smith

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19253  
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: 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 comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to George Smith

 

 

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