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Record 2343

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 4 Dec 1842
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Harriet Martineau
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 12 Jun 1802
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton
Title: Zanoni
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 2343  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Harriet Martineau
  Title: Letter to Caroline Clive, 4 Dec 1842
  Location: Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford
  Call no: MS Whitfield C13
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: Harriet Martineau, Letter to Caroline Clive, 4 Dec 1842 Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford, p. MS Whitfield C13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2343, accessed: 28 March 2024

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