Record Number: 16688

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from the Annuals and "Our Village" - so well do the savages know how to make their papers sell - but I have not seen, what I chiefly [sic] sought, any account of the noble tragedy, three acts of which you read to me when I last saw you.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1829 and 20 Jan 1829

Country:

America

Time

n/a

Place:

Cincinnati

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:

Frances Trollope

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

10 Mar 1780

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Author

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

America

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

also known as Fanny Trollope or Mrs Trollope

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Russell Mitford

Title:

Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16688

Source:

Print

Author:

A.G. L'Estrange

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1882

Vol:

1

Page:

191

Additional Comments:

Letter from Mrs [Fanny] Trollope to Miss Mitford, Cincinnati, January 20, 1829

Citation:

A.G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford, (London, 1882), 1, p. 191, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16688, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None