Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842:
'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a
[italics]consciousness[end italics] which combined with the egoism & the Evelinaism "in
saecula saeculorum", suggests no idea of modesty, real modesty [...] And thus I do not
worship the "dear little Burney" as a fair incarnate modesty [...] But I do like her book -- I do
think it full of living pulses & delightfulness, & my heart leaps up at the hum of work-day life
issuing thus from the tomb-door of that dead generation. Oh -- do read the book -- I mean, at
once -- read it at once.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1842 and 21 Feb 1842 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Frances Burney |
Title: | Diary and Letters (Volume 1) |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1842 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16860 | |
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: | 239 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 239, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16860, accessed: 09 May 2024 |
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