| Evidence: | '[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with H.G. Wells that they make too much fuss about it! [separation from Britain]' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 13 Apr 1908 and 30 Apr 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | America | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Boston | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary Augusta Ward |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 11 Jun 1851 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | America |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Bancroft |
| Title: | History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 24326 | |
| 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: | 214 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London, 1923), p. 214, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24326, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| This may well be the book in question but it could have been another work, or one by Frederic Bancroft |
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