Record Number: 3712

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [italics] rabais [end italics] of so many francs on the price of his entire works to anyone who will buy them.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

12 Apr 1865

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Windsor

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 Oliphant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

4 Apr 1828

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Novelist and Critic

Religion:

Free Church

Country of Origin:

Scotland

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:

Title:

[Advertisement of works by Lamartine]

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Advertisement, Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3712

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie Coghill

Title:

The Autobiography & Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

199

Additional Comments:

Letter from Margaret Oliphant to John Blackwood, 12 April 1865

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), The Autobiography & Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 199, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3712, accessed: 23 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None