Record Number: 5665

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over."

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

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:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Eliot

Title:

Middlemarch

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

4 vols, Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1873

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5665

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

210-11

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, (New Haven, 2001), p. 210-11, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5665, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source author notes that copy of text inscribed by G. H. Lewes, and that the annotations possibly by Mrs Trubner, its "original recipient".