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Record Number: 19601


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'The [French] President's letter from Rome has delighted us -- A letter worth writing and reading! We read it first in the Italian papers (long before it was printed in Paris) and the amusing thing was, that where he speaks of the "hostile influences," (of the cardinals) they had misprinted it "orribili influenze", which must have turned still colder the blood in absolutist readers. The misprint was not corrected until long after -- more than a week, I think.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 3 Sep 1849 and 2 Oct 1849

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bagni di Lucca

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writers

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Louis Napoleon

Title:

Letter to Edgar Ney

Genre:

Other religious, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

In the Monitore toscano, 3 September 1849

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19601

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

2007

Vol:

16

Page:

12

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 12, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19601, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Newspaper identified by source eds., who also note that 'the correction ran on 14 September,' and that the article was published in Paris in Le Moniteur on 7 September (see p.14 n.14).

   
   
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