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Record 16395

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837: 'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions[end italics] in "Strafford," seeing it on the table. I shall remedy every oversight I am sure out of an after crop of thoughts!'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Jan 1837
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: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: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Charles Macready
Title: annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford
Genre: Drama, Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16395  
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: 216
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 216, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16395, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

Macready was playing central role in Strafford at Covent Garden Theatre, from 1 May 1837.

 

 

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