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Record 30263

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 19 Jul 1892
Country: England
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Emma Darwin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 2 May 1808
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: Unitarian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Leslie Stephen
Title: Hours in a Library
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London:Smith, Elder & Co., 1892
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 30263  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Henrietta Litchfield
  Title: Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
  Place of Publication: New York
  Date of Publication: 1915
  Vol: 2
  Page: 296
  Additional comments: Letter from Emma Darwin to her daughter Henrietta, 19 July 1892

Citation: Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (New York, 1915), 2, p. 296, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=30263, accessed: 24 May 2013

Additional comments:

Emma Darwin may also have been the listener.

 

 

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