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Record Number: 19619


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850: 'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]North British[end italics]? I read a clever article in that review some months on the German socialists, ably embracing its analysis the fraternity in France, & attributed, I have since heard, to Dr Hanna, the son in law & biographer of Chalmers.'

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1849 and 10 Nov 1850

Country:

Italy

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

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:

Title:

'German Socialism'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The North British Review, August 1849, pp.406-435

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19619

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:

228

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19619, accessed: 03 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Angle brackets indicate source eds' conjectural reconstruction of MS text. Source eds. unable to confirm William Hanna as author of text, but note that he authored several other articles in same journal between 1856 and 1863; see p.229 n.6.

   
   
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