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Record Number: 3031


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va toucher ce qu'ill y a deplus tendre dans le couer, reveile toutes les idees sensibles, et dispose au regret du bonheur et meme a' Celui de la peine." ... My leisure is passed in rummaging all over the French Novels the miserable public library here affords! I have just finishedAmelie Mansfield. My Aunt fancies I read for the sake of keeping up my French. I seem to be reading the language you are probably speaking.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

16 Aug 1825

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Buxton, Derbyshire
specific address: GreatHotel

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anne Lister

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

3 Apr 1791

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

inherited land and industrial property at Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Yorks. [inherits 1824]

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Sophie Cottin

Title:

Amelie Mansfield

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

French

Provenance

Borrowed (circulating library)


Source Information:

Record ID:

3031

Source:

Print

Author:

M Green

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Spirited Yorkshirewoman

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1939

Vol:

n/a

Page:

257

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

M Green, A Spirited Yorkshirewoman, (1939), p. 257, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3031, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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