Record Number: 2503
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepys and the Navy, Frederick the Great, Wordsworth, Shelley, Napoleon, where the speaking was of high level and the debating power considerable."'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1865 and 1935
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reading Group:Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society
Age:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:unknown
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Fiction, Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancereading group
Source Information:
Record ID:2503
Source:n/a
Editor:Lettice Milne Rae
Title:Ladies in Debate: Being a History of the Ladies? Edinburgh Debating Society 1865-1935
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:63
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Lettice Milne Rae (ed.), Ladies in Debate: Being a History of the Ladies? Edinburgh Debating Society 1865-1935, (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 63, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2503, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Members of the society read the texts before the debates.