Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837:
'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [...] She had a hard shining imagination,
instead of a heart -- and words studied into carelessness, beating up & down, where warm
natural woman pulses ought to have beat. She had too little depth for manhood, -- & too little
softness for womanhood. Take away the corner stone & the top stone from Horace Walpole's
imagination -- or rather, take away what poetry he had -- & dress him up in a hoop -- & there
is Lady Mary Wortley Montague ready for court!! ---- I never could bear her -- or Horace
Walpole either -- and whenever I have looked at her letters, I have felt too much out of
humour to be amused.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
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 |
Author: | Lady Mary Wortley Montague |
Title: | Letters |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Letters |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16434 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 285 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 285, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16434, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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