Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 2257

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 17 Jan 1883
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire
specific address: Highfield House
   
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:Agnes Blanche Hemming
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 21 Dec 1861
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: None
Religion: Church of England
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: R.D. Blackmore
Title: Lorna Doone
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 2257  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: Diary for 1883, written by Agnes Blanche Hemming. Owned by Jenny Maidment.,

Citation: Diary for 1883, written by Agnes Blanche Hemming. Owned by Jenny Maidment., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2257, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)