Evidence: | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three consecutive lines without stopping to discuss exactly what the words meant; or, alternatively, for her to give messages to Janet.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Gomshall county: Surrey specific address: Burrow's Hill |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Gwen Raverat |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | don's daughter |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Aunt Etty |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | Excursion, The |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6112 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Gwen Raverat | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Period Piece | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1952 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 132 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Gwen Raverat, Period Piece (London, 1952), p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6112, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
Aunt Etty (listener) regularly reacted to the readings |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)