Record Number: 31045

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I hope you got the books and that you wanted them. The Jokai is very extraordinary. I don't feel to be able to judge books in which the young ladies of the house sit in the bedrooms of their gentlemen friends while they shave!'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1889 and 1899

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: [probably]95 Sloane Street

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:

Oxford graduate, language student, yet to take up formal occupation as archaeologist and 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:

Mór (Maurus) Jókai

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31045

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Gertude Bell Archive, Newcastle University http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/

Additional Information:

Letter from Gertrude Bell to Florence Bell undated but probably, from internal evidence, 1890s. http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/letter_details.php?letter_id=1023

Citation:

Gertude Bell Archive, Newcastle University http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31045, accessed: 16 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Mor Jokai (1825-1904) was a prolific Hungarian novelist and dramatist whose mid-century novels were translated into English in the later 19th century.