Record Number: 3992
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poem by a thief, which seemed to amuse him greatly."
Century:1850-1899
Date:1883
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:Male
Date of Birth:28 Nov 1832
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[comic poem]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3992
Source:Leslie Stephen
Editor:John Bicknell
Title:The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882
Place of Publication:Ohio State University Press
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:1
Page:297
Additional Comments:
Letter from Leslie Stephen to Julia Prinsep Stephen (January 1883).
Citation:
Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882 , (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 1, p. 297, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3992, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None