Record Number: 4714
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" as she went to bed.'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
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Timen/anight
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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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Mummer's Wife
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:4714
Source:Kate Flint
Editor:n/a
Title:The Woman Reader 1837-1914
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1993
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Page:212
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 212, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4714, accessed: 11 February 2025
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Susan L. Mitchell, "George Moore" (1916) 43.