Record Number: 3742

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the Rev. Amos Barton - but I will not ask you whether that guess edges upon the truth.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1859

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Florence
specific address: Via Maggio

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:

Frank Oliphant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Glass engraver

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Anthony Trollope

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

one of Trollope's early works

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3742

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Editor:

Annie Coghill

Title:

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

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

167

Additional Comments:

Letter from Mrs Oliphant to John Blackwood, n.d. 1859

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 167, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3742, accessed: 23 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None