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Record Number: 2509


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise especially in one character.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 1892

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Margaret Oliphant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

4 Apr 1828

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Novelist and Critic

Religion:

Free Church

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Amelia Hutchison Stirling

Title:

Monsieur le Comte

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Book in MS

Publication Details

published May 1895

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

2509

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Margaret Oliphant

Title:

Letter to Henderson 14 April 1892

Location:

National Library of Scotland, Blackwood Archive

Call No:

MS 4592 (1892)

Page/Folio:

62-3

Additional Information:

Letter from Margaret Oliphant to Mr Henderson

Citation:

Margaret Oliphant, Letter to Henderson 14 April 1892, National Library of Scotland, Blackwood Archive, MS 4592 (1892), 62-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2509, accessed: 22 November 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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