Record Number: 19291

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obligation to sit and settle to a little steady reading every day'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 10 Dec 1860

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Manchester
specific address: 46 Plymouth Grove

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

clergyman's wife and writer, and her daughters

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Henry Hart Milman

Title:

History of Latin Christianity

Genre:

Other religious, History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19291

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

639

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 639, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19291, accessed: 14 January 2025

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton. Florence was just eighteen and the other daughters 26 and 23