Record Number: 28611

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher, Margaret Wooler, 28 August 1848:

'Do you remember once speaking with approbation of a book called "Mrs Leicester's School," which you said you had met with, and you wondered by whom it was written? I was reading the other day a lately published collection of the "Letters of Charles Lamb," edited by Serjeant Talfourd, where I found it mentioned that "Mrs Leicester's School" was the first production of Lamb and his sister. These letters are themselves singularly interesting; they have hitherto been suppressed in all previous collections of works and relics, on account of the frequent allusions they contain to the unhappy malady of Miss Lamb [goes on to recount incident of Mary Lamb's killing of her mother, and Charles's subsequent care of her] [...] I thought it both a sad and edifying history.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Reader:

Margaret Wooler

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Headmistress

Religion:

n/a

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:

Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

Title:

Mrs Leicester's School

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28611

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington

Title:

The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships, and Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

1:2

Page:

249

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships, and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 1:2, p. 249, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28611, accessed: 10 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

None