Record Number: 7418

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Oct 1855

Country:

England

Time

evening: after dinner

Place:

city: Worthing

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:

William Makepeace Thackeray

Title:

The Newcomes

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

7418

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:

57

Additional Comments:

co-editor Judith Johnston

Citation:

George Eliot, Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot, (Cambridge, 1998), p. 57, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7418, accessed: 18 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None