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Record 16540

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuits next year as a BARRISTER!! I shall be curious to observe how his enthusiasm for his profession, which actually set him down to read Coke among this exquisite scenery, when he came down with me last year [...] will bear up under the infliction.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1838 and 31 Dec 1838
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Torquay
   
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:George Goodin Moulton-Barrett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 15 Jul 1816
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Law student
Religion: Evangelical
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: Sir Edward Coke
Title: unknown
Genre: Law
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16540  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1986
  Vol: 4
  Page: 166
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 166, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16540, accessed: 18 April 2024

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