| Evidence: | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The first was about a family Bible, the last line of each stanza being 'The old-fashioned Bible that lay on the stand'; the second was Felicia Hemans's 'The Better Land' [which almost caused her to faint with emotion] ..." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Marianne Farningham |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| 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 |
| Author: | Felicia Hemans |
| Title: | The Better Land |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | In The Sailor's Magazine |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4819 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Flint | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 220 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 220, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4819, accessed: 24 May 2013 | |
| Quotation from Marianne Farningham, A Working Woman's Life: An Autobiography (1907) 20-1. |
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