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Record 16371

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read them all) very unequal [...] They are not consistent in their character. For instance .. Kirby! Who, except a man of science, has understanding for everything in him [...] it was all I could do to get thro' with him, & more than I could do to make out his meaning in many places. His introduction interested me above all the rest, in its subject: but [...] its is written in a very superficial manner, & indicates that he has touched Hebrew as the Mahometan did Paradise, with one foot.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Oct 1835 and 30 Nov 1835
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: William Kirby
Title: The Habits and Instincts of Animals
Genre: Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Natural history
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1835; Was one of group of works known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16371  
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: 152
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16371, accessed: 29 March 2024

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