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Record 3726

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 12 May 1873
Country: England
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:Harriet Stephen
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1840
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Barnett Smith
Title: The Works of Thackeray
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1873
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3726  
Source - Print  
  Author: Leslie Stephen
  Editor: John Bicknell
  Title: The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882
  Place of Publication: Ohio State University Press
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: 1
  Page: 123
  Additional comments: Letter from Leslie Stephen to G. B. Smith accepting his article 'The Brontes' which appeared in the July 1873 number of the Cornhill. This comment refers to another of Smith's articles 'The Works of Thackeray', which appeared in the Edinburgh Review, 137 (January 1873).

Citation: Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882 (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 1, p. 123, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3726, accessed: 29 March 2024

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