Record Number: 3197

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quaker, he abhorred -- "and for many hours every day ... to all ten volumes ... he listened in the last winter of his life."'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1918

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:

Reader:

Mariabella Fry

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

wife of jurist

Religion:

Quaker

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Sir Edward Fry (reader's husband)

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Gibson Lockhart

Title:

Life of Scott

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

10 vols.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3197

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

182

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 182, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3197, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Agnes Fry, A Memoir of The Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry (1921) 262.