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Record 16365

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835: 'I have you to thank [...] for some very clever books by the Marquis de Fortia which I have read with the greatest interest [...] I happen to have met with a work of his, since writing to you last, on the passage of Hannibal over the Alps, which delighted me.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 20 Jun 1835 and 30 Jul 1835
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:Robert Browning
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7 May 1812
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Agricole Fortia d'Urban
Title: works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal
Genre: Classics, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1821
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16365  
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: 143
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16365, accessed: 23 April 2024

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