Record Number: 4671

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ...

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Octavia Hill

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1838

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

social reformer

Religion:

n/a

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:

Thomas Hughes

Title:

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4671

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

202

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 202, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4671, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Octavia Hill, letter to Mary Harris (Oct. 1856), derived from C. Edmund Maurice, "Life of Octavia Hill: As Told in her Letters" (1913) 89-90.