Record Number: 3745
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our interior.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Oct 1861 and 31 Oct 1861
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: Ealing
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1853
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:child
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
Maggie Oliphant is Margaret Oliphant's daughter
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Legends of the Saints
Genre:Other religious, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:3745
Source: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:177
Additional Comments:
Letter from Mrs Oliphant to Isabella Blackwood, October 1861
Citation:
Margaret Oliphant, Annie Coghill (ed.), Autobiography & Letters of Mrs M.O.W. Oliphant, (Leicester, 1974), p. 177, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3745, accessed: 14 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None