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Record 32232

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'... I have been idle, but rather too busy to write, our leisure hours being taken up with reading Sydney's "Memoirs".'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Until: 15 Dec 1854
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Fanny Allen
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: n/a
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sydney Smith
Title: Selections from the writings of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1854
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 32232  
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: 155
  Additional comments: Letter from Fanny Allen to her niece Elizabeth Wedgwood. 15 December 1854

Citation: Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (New York, 1915), 2, p. 155, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=32232, accessed: 22 May 2013

Additional comments:

 

 

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