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Record 7433

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Jul 1856
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Tenby
   
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:George Eliot (pseud)
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 22 Nov 1819
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henri Milne-Edwards
Title: [work on Zoology]
Genre: Science, Natural history
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 7433  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Eliot (pseud)
  Editor: Margaret Harris
  Title: The Journals of George Eliot
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 62
  Additional comments: Co-editor Judith Johnston

Citation: George Eliot (pseud), Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7433, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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