| Evidence: | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest and lifted highest -- Shakespeare, Dante in Cary's translation, Blake, Wordsworth, and [...] [Miss Harrison's] own favourites, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, the Brownings, Coventry Patmore [...] A reading which all [...] [Miss Harrison's] pupils heard often, and never forgot, was from Alice Meynell's "Preludes" of 1875 -- the sonnet "To a Daisy"'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1879 and 31 Dec 1886 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: Gower Street School |
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| Reading Group: | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8393 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Charlotte Mew and Her Friends | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 31 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (London, 1984), p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8393, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
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