| Evidence: | 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-found ability was made ...she was "furnished with a Mavor's spelling book" ... and made to start ... letter by letter, rather than by recognising words -- "under my mother's personal superintendence".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1855 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London location in dwelling: front hall |
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| Reading Group: | Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4640 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Flint | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 196 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4640, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| Quotation from Lord and lady Aberdeen, "'We Twa': Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen" (1925) 104. |
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