Record Number: 29202

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My mother told us how when she was only five, she began ''Paradise Lost'', but soon asked her mother to finish it for her, and how nice it was of her mother not to refuse.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1813 and 31 Dec 1813

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Listener:

Emma Wedgwood

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

2 May 1808

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Unitarian

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:

John Milton

Title:

Paradise Lost

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1667

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29202

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Henrietta Litchfield

Title:

Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1915

Vol:

1

Page:

58

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896, (New York, 1915), 1, p. 58, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29202, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None