Record Number: 19311
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and assures them that she is proud of being able to say to people that she had been acquainted from the first with the statue commemmorated']' Letter reproduced in this edition from a printed source which gives this precis.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 31 Dec 1861
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Manchester
specific address: 46 Plymouth Grove
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solitary in company unknown
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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:Marble Faun, The
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19311
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:674
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 674, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19311, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to W.W. Story whose statue was the model.