Record Number: 7267
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:May 1855
Country:England
Timeevening
Place:city: East Sheen
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:
Reading Group: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writers
Religion:unknown
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:History of the Inductive Sciences
Genre:History, Science
Form of Text:Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7267
Source:George Eliot
Editor:Margaret Harris
Title:The Journals of George Eliot
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1998
Vol:n/a
Page:56
Additional Comments:
co-editor Judith Johnston
Citation:
George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot, (Cambridge, 1998), p. 56, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7267, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
None