Record Number: 110

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the blaze of whose parliamentary escutcheon has never yet been dimmed by the bar-sinister or inconsistency." What do you think of that?'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 22 Sep 1882

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Ivybridge

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1859

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer and layabout

Religion:

Free Church

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

[newspaper]

Genre:

newspaper

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

110

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie Coghill

Title:

Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

307

Additional Comments:

Letter from F.R. (Cecco) Oliphant to Margaret Oliphant, 22 Sept [1882]

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 307, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=110, accessed: 14 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None