Record Number: 4640

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-found ability was made ...she was "furnished with a Mavor's spelling book" ... and made to start ... letter by letter, rather than by recognising words -- "under my mother's personal superintendence".'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1855 and 31 Dec 1859

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
location in dwelling: front hall

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:

Reading Group:

Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4640

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

196

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 196, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4640, accessed: 28 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Lord and lady Aberdeen, "'We Twa': Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen" (1925) 104.