Record Number: 8397
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest and lifted highest -- Shakespeare, Dante in Cary's translation, Blake, Wordsworth, and [...] [Miss Harrison's] own favourites, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, the Brownings, Coventry Patmore [...] A reading which all [...] [Miss Harrison's] pupils heard often, and never forgot, was from Alice Meynell's "Preludes" of 1875 -- the sonnet "To a Daisy"'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1879 and 31 Dec 1886
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: Gower Street School
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reading Group:Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school
Age:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"To A Daisy"
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn Preludes
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8397
Source:Penelope Fitzgerald
Editor:n/a
Title:Charlotte Mew and Her Friends
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:n/a
Page:31
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends, (London, 1984), p. 31, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8397, accessed: 04 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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