Record Number: 3776

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1882 and 31 Dec 1886

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Queen Victoria

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1819

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Queen of England

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edna Lyall

Title:

Donovan: A Modern Englishman

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3776

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:

875 n.127

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 875 n.127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3776, accessed: 12 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from letter from Queen Victoria of 17 February 1886 in Agatha Ramm, ed., Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901 (1990) 30.