Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842:
'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] very grateful to you for the gift of your
poems [...] my pencil has marked my favourites. I like, among others, that song with the
pretty wild measure, about the summer, and the song to spring about the "bright-vein'd
flowers"'.
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1842 and 5 Feb 1842 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
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 |
Author: | Thomas Westwood |
Title: | Poems |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1840 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 16859 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
Vol: | 5 | |
Page: | 234 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 234, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16859, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Pieces named from this text are 'An Expostulation to Summer on Her Premature Departure', and 'A Song of Spring'. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)