| Evidence: | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | May 1855 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: East Sheen | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reading Group: | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writers |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Title: | probably Life of Johnson |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7266 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Eliot | |
| Editor: | Margaret Harris | |
| Title: | The Journals of George Eliot | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 56 | |
| Additional comments: | co-editor Judith Johnston |
| Citation: | George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7266, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
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