Evidence: | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The first was about a family Bible, the last line of each stanza being 'The old-fashioned Bible that lay on the stand'; the second was Felicia Hemans's 'The Better Land' [which almost caused her to faint with emotion] ..." |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Marianne Farningham |
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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Felicia Hemans |
Title: | The Better Land |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | In The Sailor's Magazine |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4819 | |
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: | 220 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 220, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4819, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Quotation from Marianne Farningham, A Working Woman's Life: An Autobiography (1907) 20-1. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)