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Record 4646

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughters books ... [including] a particular object of [Barlow's] derision, "The Old Helmet": "I had heard so much about this book that when it came my way when I was sixteen, I pounced on it eagerly ... [gives mocking summary of romantic, historical plot] ... A movng story, indeed, but wasted on us."'
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1896 and 31 Dec 1899
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:Amy Barlow
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Schoolmistress
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: Elizabeth Wetherell
Title: The Old Helmet
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4646  
Source - Print  
  Author: Kate Flint
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Woman Reader 1837-1914
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 197-98
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 197-98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4646, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Amy Barlow, "Seventh Child: The Autobiography of a Schoolmistress" (1969) 20-1.

 

 

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