Evidence: | 'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the Rev. Amos Barton - but I will not ask you whether that guess edges upon the truth.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Florence specific address: Via Maggio |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Frank Oliphant |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Glass engraver |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Italy |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Anthony Trollope |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | one of Trollope's early works |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3742 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Margaret Oliphant | |
Editor: | Annie Coghill | |
Title: | Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant | |
Place of Publication: | Leicester | |
Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 167 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Mrs Oliphant to John Blackwood, n.d. 1859 |
Citation: | Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant (Leicester, 1974), p. 167, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3742, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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