Record Number: 19360
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this paper for?" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out "Assassination of President Lincoln". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else'
Century:1850-1899
Date:26 Apr 1865
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 89 Oxford Terrace
(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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1842
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:clergyman's daughter
Religion:Unitarian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
her mother and probably some of her sisters
Additional Comments:
formerly Florence Gaskell
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Daily News
Genre:news
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
sent by Charlie - ie Charles Crompton, Florence's husband
Source Information:
Record ID:19360
Source:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Editor:J.A.V. Chapple
Title:Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The
Place of Publication:Manchester
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:757
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 757, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19360, accessed: 30 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter from Mrs Gaskell to Charles Eliot Norton. The address is that of her daughter, Florence.
