Record Number: 3172

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I walked slowly up Royston Rd [...] went up, found Miss Browne, not perhaps quite so unwell as I expected, sitting on the sopha reading the last canto of Childe Harold. Would not let her send for her mother till I had sat 40 minutes tete-a-tete with herself.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

2 Mar 1819

Country:

England

Time

daytime: Afternoon, after 3.15

Place:

city: Halifax
specific address: Brownes' house, Royston Road
location in dwelling: home, on the sofa

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:

Miss Browne

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

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Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Gordon Byron

Title:

Childe Harold

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3172

Source:

Print

Author:

Anne Lister

Editor:

Helena Whitbread

Title:

I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

81

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread (ed.), I know my own heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840, (London, 1988), p. 81, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3172, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None