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Record 3615

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1874 and 31 Dec 1874
Country: n/a
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:William Ewart Gladstone
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 29 Dec 1809
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Politician
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Julia Kavanagh
Title: Natalie
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3615  
Source - Print  
  Author: Philip Waller
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 657
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 657, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3615, accessed: 19 April 2024

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