Record Number: 573

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, I think, according to these specimens, in poetry.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: Mar 1891

Country:

Italy

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:

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:

Italy

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

573

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill

Title:

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

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

386

Additional Comments:

Letter from Oliphant to Mr Blackwood, 23 March 1891

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie (Mrs Harry) Coghill (ed.), The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (1974), p. 386, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=573, accessed: 12 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None