Record Number: 3930

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of Barton, and for those six summer weeks of 1881 I lived in the book ..."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jul 1881 and 30 Sep 1881

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Barton-on-Humber

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:

Janet Courtney

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

27 Nov 1865

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer; publi servant; editor

Religion:

Church of England

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:

J. Henry Shorthouse

Title:

John Inglesant

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1881

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3930

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:

1035

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 1035, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3930, accessed: 15 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Janet Courtney, Recollected in Tranquillity (1930) 121.