Record Number: 30890

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thank you for the delightful little book and for the far too delightful inscription you put into it. I opened it after breakfast at the vocabulary essay and read that again with the utmost delight. A charming paper! so amusing — and so just! I shall read the others tonight.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

22 Nov 1907

Country:

England

Time

morning

Place:

city: Northallerton
county: N. Yorks
specific address: Rounton Grange

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:

Gertrude Bell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Jul 1868

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Linguist, traveller, archaeologist, yet to take up formal occupation as political advisor

Religion:

originally Christian (Anglican) by now declared atheist

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:

Florence Bell

Title:

?Topics for Conversation

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907

Provenance

owned
inscribed copy sent by author

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30890

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk

Additional Information:

Letter from Gertrude Bell to Florence Bell 22 November 1907 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/letter_details.php?letter_id=163

Citation:

Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30890, accessed: 19 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The identity of the text read is not certain. The source letter implies a recently published work by Florence Bell. This is the smaller (117 pp.) of the two books appearing in 1907, the other being a larger work (272 pp. with 10 pp. of plates) of social history, "At The Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town".