Record Number: 3093

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made himself comfortable by reading and "pleasant talk about books" with people he met.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1857 and 31 Dec 1857

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Halifax
other location: Inn

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:

William Makepeace Thackeray

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1811

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

India

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:

unknown

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3093

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

18

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 18, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3093, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Thackeray's 21-22 February 1857 letter to Mrs Thomas Frederick Elliot and Kate Perry, in Edgar F, Harden, ed., Selected Letters of Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray (1996) 315-16.