| Evidence: | '[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselves seem to carry one so [italics] up [end italics] into a ["]purer aether, a diviner air".' |
||||||||||
| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1865 and 8 Sep 1865 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Manchester specific address: 46 Plymouth Grove |
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
||||||||||
| Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer and clergyman's wife |
| Religion: | Unitarian |
| 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: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [book on portraits of Dante] |
| Genre: | Biography, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned gift from the Nortons |
| Record ID: | 19363 | |
| 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: | 773 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 773, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19363, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter from Mrs Gaskell to Charles Eliot and Susan Norton. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)