| Evidence: | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had in it a strong dah of sheer gluttony; and she was a reckless, and most ill-natured gossip." Also, very critical of the editing: "The editing is bad. Chapter X ought to end about page 143." Dates of reading: "Oct 25 1910 Uncle Tom's birthday [i.e. Lord Macaulay] - the battle of Agincourt"; August 8 1921; March 15 1925; Jan. 4 1924; July 4 1928. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1921 and 1928 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Otto Trevelyan |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 20 Jul 1838 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Historian and statesman |
| 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: | Mary Boykin Chesnut |
| Title: | A diary from Dixie |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1906 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 22674 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | MS in book cited below, |
| Citation: | MS in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22674, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
| I have not transcribed all the MS notes in this volume. GOT normally indicates if a book was read aloud. |
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