Record Number: 563
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw. The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture. I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief. I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1885 and 29 Jan 1885
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Review of the Life of George Eliot
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsPublished in Blackwood's Magazine, January 1885
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:563
Source:Margaret Oliphant
Editor:Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill
Title:The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant
Place of Publication:Leicester
Date of Publication:1974
Vol:n/a
Page:323
Additional Comments:
Letter from Margaret Oliphant to Mr Blackwood, 29 January [1885]
Citation:
Margaret Oliphant, Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill (ed.), The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 323, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=563, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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