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: [prayers]
Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am interested in reform & admire Lord John Russell, fell fast asleep. My politics were not strong enough to keep my eyes open.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
John Russell : [Speech on Reform]
Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am interested in reform & admire Lord John Russell, fell fast asleep. My politics were not strong enough to keep my eyes open.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett
: Latin Bible
Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do not like it at all, I think it twice as difficult as French [...] Poor Bro [brother] I believe, has not much more taste for it than I have, but he is now so far advanced in it, as to translate the Latin Bible'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : "The Development of Genius"
'In 1826 and early 1827, E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] struggled with a long poem, "The Development of Genius" [...] She showed it to her father in early February 1827 and he ridiculed it [...] but [Uvedale] Price encouraged her. However, it was not published in her lifetime.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Manuscript: Unknown
: report of marriage of Emily Bayford and Charles George Butler
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, c.1 October 1830: 'Papa read us out of the newspaper Emily Bayford's marriage, it took place on Tuesday [28 September]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Print: Newspaper
Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'Poor Sir Walter Scott! You have heard that he is dying [...] The other night Papa read a passage from the Lady of the Lake to me; and I did not like to hear it. It sounded like something unnatural -- as if you were looking at a broken instrument, & hearing its sweetest music at the same time. [...] You know I am not an admirer of Sir Walter's poetry.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett sr Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett : 'L.E.L.'s Last Question'
Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 January 1839: 'You may fancy our surprise when, upon opening the Athenaeum, on Saturday, the first thing Papa saw, was these lines ["L.E.L.'s Last Question"] of Ba [Elizabeth Barrett]'s, -- who had written them & sent them to the editor, unknown to any one.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
: Letter announcing financial/property loss
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1842: 'Ah -- my poor dearest Papa! How I remember the coming of that letter to apprise him of the loss of his fortune [...] He was surrounded by his family [...] And the letter came -- & just one shadow past on his face while he read it (I marked it at the moment) & then he broke away from the melancholy, & threw himself into the jests & laughter of his innocent boys.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Manuscript: Letter
: Review of Elizabeth Barrett, Poems (1844)
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Think of the Westminster Review [...] commending me for "moral courage" on account of the sonnets to Madame Dudevant [George Sand] -- for daring to say what I do, "in the face of opinion." I was half afraid while Papa was reading the passage. I observed that he made a little impatient movement -- & I am sure he thought it equivocal praise for a woman, to have moral courage against opinion.! "That's capital" he said -- just in the tone of .. "That's very impertinent." But the Westminster Review is so gracious, & says so many kind things of me & my poetry, that the emotion was swept away like a cobweb, -- and he forgot to ask me any searching questions. Dearest Papa!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Moulton-Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
: Reports concerning cure of Harriet Martineau by mesmerism
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'I have heard that Miss Martineau's connections are greatly vexed by the publicity given to the case [of Martineau's having been apparently cured of an ovarian cyst by mesmerism] [...] The medical men who attended her [...] are said to be both furious & incredulous. Most unpleasant of all is, they have put her medical case in very bare hideous language, I hear, into the Medical Gazettes from whence it has been copied into some Evening papers. Papa who saw it, was lamenting it much. "No man wd like it" he observed, -- "much less a woman. They quite turn her inside out."'
