Record Number: 16549

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1840: '[Mary Hunter] was brought up a dissenter among dissenters, & amused herself one day when she & I were together in a bookseller's shop, with looking over for a novelty the church catechism'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1832 and 15 Jan 1840

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: Bookshop

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:

Mary Hunter

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Daughter of Dissenting minister

Religion:

Dissenter

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:

Title:

Church of England catechism

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16549

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

4

Page:

224

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 224, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16549, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None