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Record 16347

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1832 and 2 Nov 1832
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

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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Biblia Hebraica
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Ed. Nathaniel Forster (2 vols, 1750)
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16347  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1985
  Vol: 3
  Page: 62
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16347, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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