Evidence: | 'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbourhood hoping to include the dale in her next book.
Many years afterwards I read "The History of David Grieve" and at once remembered our visitor. Comparing dates I realised it was Mrs. Humphry Ward, seeking the atmosphere of the wild valley she described so well.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Hannah Mitchell |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 11 Feb 1872 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | daughter of farm labourer, later a suffragette |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mary Humphrey Ward |
Title: | The History of David Grieve |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9919 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hannah Mitchell | |
Editor: | Geoffrey Mitchell | |
Title: | The Hard Way Up | |
Place of Publication: | England | |
Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 51 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hannah Mitchell, Geoffrey Mitchell (ed.), The Hard Way Up (England, 1968), p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9919, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
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