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Record 26491

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Bruton Street, 3 January 1824: 'We landed here at half-past three yesterday, dined tete-a-tete without dressing [...] read till ten, played at chess till near one.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 2 Jan 1824
Country: England
Time: evening
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:

Reading Group:Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harriet Leveson Gower)
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: n/a
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26491  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: F. Leveson Gower
  Title: Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1894
  Vol: 1
  Page: 245
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 1, p. 245, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26491, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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