Record Number: 17398

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I am only in the first volume. Are English chancellors really made of such stuff? Pincher will help to reconcile me to the Law lords perhaps.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1844 and 10 Dec 1844

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Elizabeth Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

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:

Horace Twiss

Title:

The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1)

Genre:

History, Biography, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1844

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17398

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1991

Vol:

9

Page:

266

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1991), 9, p. 266, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17398, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source eds note that 'Pincher' was Eldon's favourite dog, and that 'an account of his theft and recovery appears in volume 3 [of the text read]'; this subject would have been of interest to Barrett, given her experience of having had her own beloved spaniel Flush stolen (and also recovered). Source eds also note that 'It is likely that [Barrett] was reading the copy [of Twiss's work] that her brother Alfred had won the previous month in a private raffle'; see p.267 n.5.