Record Number: 6293
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of "Wide Awake" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called "The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha" which "abounded in ghosts" and she liked it even better'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1880 and 1884
Country:Canada
Timen/a
Place:city: Cavendish
county: Prince Edward Island
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:30 Nov 1874
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later teacher and writer
Religion:Christian, Protestant
Country of Origin:Canada
Country of Experience:Canada
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha
Genre:Fiction, fairy tale
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
school prize
Source Information:
Record ID:6293
Source:Janet Lunn
Editor:n/a
Title:Maud's House of Dreams. The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery
Place of Publication:Toronto
Date of Publication:2002
Vol:n/a
Page:36
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Janet Lunn, Maud's House of Dreams. The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, (Toronto, 2002), p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6293, accessed: 22 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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