Record Number: 19145

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 27 Oct 1854

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Matlock
specific address: Lea Hurst

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:

Florence Nightingale

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

12 May 1820

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

nurse and writer

Religion:

n/a

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:

Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Other religious, History, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19145

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Editor:

J.A.V. Chapple

Title:

Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The

Place of Publication:

Manchester

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

318

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 318, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19145, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Emily Shaen