| Evidence: | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 2 Feb 1858 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | night | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Richmond | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | Harriet Martineau |
| Title: | History of the Thirty Years Peace |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7501 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 73 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Judith Johnston |
| Citation: | George Eliot (pseud.), Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 73, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7501, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
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