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 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reading Group: | Young Lady Aberdeen and mother |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Mavor's spelling book |
Genre: | Children's Lit, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4641 | |
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=4641, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
Quotation from Lord and Lady Aberdeen, "'We Twa': Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen" (1925) 104. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)