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Record 3719

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, but now brought down to the very dust, I turned to it with a sense of common suffering'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 6 Oct 1894
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city
   
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:Margaret Oliphant
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 4 Apr 1828
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist and Critic
Religion: Free Church
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: R.T. Davison
Title: Life of Archibald Campbell Tait
Genre: Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 2 vols, 1811
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3719  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Oliphant
  Editor: Elisabeth Jay
  Title: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
  Place of Publication: Ontario
  Date of Publication: 2002
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 128
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Oliphant, Elisabeth Jay (ed.), The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (Ontario, 2002), p. 128, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3719, accessed: 19 April 2024

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