| Evidence: | 'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays [Joanna Baillie's "Plays on the Passions"]; and how she kneeled on a chair to look at it, and how she read on till the servant opened the shutters, and let in the daylight of a winter morning.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning night |
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Mary Berry |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1763 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | salonniere |
| Religion: | Christian |
| 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: | Joanna Baillie |
| Title: | Plays on the Passions |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9717 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 359 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 359, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9717, accessed: 28 May 2023 | |
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