Evidence: | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840:
'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been struck by the great danger, in these times, of representing authority so constantly and fearfully in the wrong, so tyrannous, so
devilish, as the author has been pleased to portray it in "Jack Sheppard" [...] Of course Mr
Ainsworth had no such design, but such is the effect; and as the millions who see it
represented at the minor theatres will not distinguish between now and a hundred years back,
all the Chartists in the land are less dangerous than this nightmare of a book, and I, Radical as
I am, lament any additional temptations to outbreak, with all its train of horrors.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Jan 1840 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Mary Russell Mitford |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1787 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Anglican |
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: | William Harrison Ainsworth |
Title: | Jack Sheppard: A Romance |
Genre: | Fiction, History, Law |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 3 vols, 1839 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16569 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 232 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 232, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16569, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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