Record Number: 2715
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1887 and 31 Dec 1894
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: village of Varazze
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:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1852
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:academic
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
his children
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:2715
Source:Alice Crawford
Editor:n/a
Title:Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay
Place of Publication:Madison
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:159
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Alice Crawford, Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay, (Madison, 1995), p. 159, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2715, accessed: 04 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See Rose Macaulay, 'The Free Run of the Shelves' in New Statesman and Nation, 4. Dec. 1948, p.487