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Record 3742

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 1859
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Florence
specific address: Via Maggio
   
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Anthony Trollope
Title: n/a
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: one of Trollope's early works
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3742  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

 

 

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