Evidence: | 'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the "Poema del Cid", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 11 Jun 1867 and 11 Jun 1871 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford specific address: Bodleian Library |
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Reader: | Mary Arnold |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 11 Jun 1851 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later writer |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | born in Australia of English parents |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | later Mrs Ward |
Author: | |
Title: | El Cantar de Mio Cid |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | in Spanish |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 24046 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Janet Penrose Trevelyan | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1923 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 21 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London, 1923), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24046, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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