Record Number: 3744

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

6 Mar 1860

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Birkenhead

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:

Margaret Oliphant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

4 Apr 1828

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Novelist and Critic

Religion:

Free Church

Country of Origin:

Scotland

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:

?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton

Title:

St Stephen's

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3744

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie Coghill

Title:

Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

169

Additional Comments:

Letter from Mrs Oliphant to John Blackwood, 6 March 1860

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 169, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3744, accessed: 28 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None