Record Number: 569

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued thoughts that come to us with the decline of the day.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1889 and 28 Feb 1889

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Beaulieu

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:

Writer and Critic

Religion:

Free Church

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

A.K.H. Boyd

Title:

Taking in Sail

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

569

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie Coghill

Title:

The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

360

Additional Comments:

Letter from Margaret Oliphant to Dr A.K.H. Boyd [Jan or Feb, 1889]

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 360, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=569, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None