Record Number: 6301
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables", Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:1891
Country:Canada
Timen/a
Place:city: Cavendish
county: Prince Edward Island
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:30 Nov 1874
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later teacher and writer
Religion:Christian, Protestant
Country of Origin:Canada
Country of Experience:Canada
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Pickwick Papers, The
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:6301
Source:Janet Lunn
Editor:n/a
Title:Maud's House of Dreams. The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Place of Publication:Toronto
Date of Publication:2002
Vol:n/a
Page:75
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Janet Lunn, Maud's House of Dreams. The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, (Toronto, 2002), p. 75, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6301, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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