| Evidence: | "Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sundays as it wasn't a novel!'" |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harriet Shaw Weaver |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1876 |
| 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: | Walt Whitman |
| Title: | Leaves of Grass |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4861 | |
| 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: | 238 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 238, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4861, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Quotation (from Harriet Shaw Weaver, 6 January 1960 letter to B. W. Huebsch) derived from Jane Lidderdale and Mary Nicholson, Dear Miss Weaver: Harriet Shaw Weaver 1876-1961 (1970) 26. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)