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Record 16547

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839: 'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St Leger -- for he, a horse, starts, I see by this morning's "Times", with a batch of the rarest -- as does "Avicenna" -- both gloried in by Mr C. Atwood!'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 16 Sep 1839
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: unknown
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:
Title: racing programme
Genre: Sport / Leisure
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: In The Times, 16 September 1839
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16547  
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: 197
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 197, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16547, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds note that "Paracelsus" actually listed in The Times for 16 September 1839 as running in the Two-Year-Old Stakes, on 19 September (and that neither it nor "Avicenna" actually started); see p.197 n.4.

 

 

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