Record Number: 6300

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-read "Zanoni"... until she knew whole chunks of it by heart... She was so in love with its dark, masterful hero that she actually spent hours rewriting some of Lord Lytton's story so that the heroine's dialogue and behaviour would read more like dialogue and behaviour that would be hers if she were "Zanoni"'s heroine.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1891

Country:

Canada

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cavendish
county: Prince Edward Island

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:

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Title:

Zanoni

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6300

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

74-5

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Janet Lunn, Maud's House of Dreams. The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, (Toronto, 2002), p. 74-5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6300, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None