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Record Number: 27024


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in letter of 4 April 1844 from Lady Granville to her sister Lady Carlisle]: 'I am rather angry with Charles Granville for having shown the proof sheets [of Ellen Middleton] to Lord Clarendon, and I regret for my own sake that he praises it so extravagantly. I think it is like when a new beauty appears. Instead of prepossessing people in its favour, it will make them find fault with it.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1843 and 8 Mar 1844

Country:

n/a

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:

Lord Clarendon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower

Title:

Ellen Middleton

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown, In proof

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

27024

Source:

Print

Author:

Harriet Countess Granville

Editor:

F. Leveson Gower

Title:

Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1894

Vol:

2

Page:

379

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 2, p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27024, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Charles Granville had helped to correct proofs of text (see p.378 n.2 in source). Not sure whether author of text had by this time assumed married name of Fullerton.

   
   
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