Record Number: 28730
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 11 March 1851:
'How we work! and lift, and carry, and knock boxes open as if we were carpenters by trade;
and sit down in the midst of the mess when we are quite tired [...] and find it is the middle of
the afternoon and we've forgotten our dinner! And then we settle to have some tea and eggs,
and go on reading letters all the time we're eating, and don't give over working till bedtime,
and take a new number of "David Copperfield" to bed with us and drop asleep at the second
page.'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1851 and 11 Mar 1851
Country:New Zealand
Timen/anight
Place:city: Wellington
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:26 Feb 1817
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Author and shop-keeper
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:New Zealand
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:David Copperfield (instalments)
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28730
Source:n/a
Editor:Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington
Title:The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:2:3
Page:212
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 212, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28730, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
