Record Number: 7268

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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

Time

evening

Place:

city: East Sheen

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:

Reading Group:

George Eliot and G.H. Lewes

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Homer

Title:

Odyssey

Genre:

Classics, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

7268

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

n/a

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=7268, accessed: 18 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None