| Evidence: | 'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this paper for?" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out "Assassination of President Lincoln". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 26 Apr 1865 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 89 Oxford Terrace |
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| Reader: | Florence Elizabeth Crompton |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1842 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | clergyman's daughter |
| Religion: | Unitarian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
her mother and probably some of her sisters |
| Additional comments: | formerly Florence Gaskell |
| Author: | [n/a] |
| Title: | Daily News |
| Genre: | news |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned sent by Charlie - ie Charles Crompton, Florence's husband |
| Record ID: | 19360 | |
| 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: | 757 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 757, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19360, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter from Mrs Gaskell to Charles Eliot Norton. The address is that of her daughter, Florence. |
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