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Record 15997

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826: 'Mr Price's desire that I should have read these sheets [proofs of Price's Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages] with the design of remarking on them I have obeyed with much deference to him [...] I have read them with deep interest & attention [goes on to discuss and dispute text in great depth and detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Oct 1826 and 31 Oct 1826
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: Foxley
   
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
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 6 Mar 1806
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Evangelical
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Uvedale Price
Title: An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages
Genre: Classics, Essays / Criticism, Languages
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: proof sheets (work published in 1827)
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 15997  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1984
  Vol: 1
  Page: 257
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 1, p. 257, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15997, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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