Record Number: 19274
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead[?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:30 Nov 1859
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Manchester
specific address: 42 Plymouth Grove
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(Listener):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:29 Sep 1810
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer and clergyman's wife
Religion:Unitarian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart']
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsSaturday Review
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19274
Source:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Editor:J.A.V. Chapple
Title:Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The
Place of Publication:Manchester
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:593-4
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 593-4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19274, accessed: 19 February 2025
Additional Comments:
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to George Smith. Gaskell saw the play in question in may 1860.