Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844:
'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]domestic[end italics] is one, I think, in
an octave stanza, containing a story .. of a wife who becomes aware of the dishonour of her
husband. It succeeds the Dream -- It has more [italics]power[end italics], than any
composition of Mrs Norton's which I ever read. The name quite escapes me -- & I have so
painful an association of a personal nature with the book, as to lose all courage to look into it.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 10 Dec 1844 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton |
Title: | The Dream, and Other Poems |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17329 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | 9 | |
Page: | 13 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1991), 9, p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17329, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Poem referred to is 'The Creole Girl; or, The Physician's Story.' Barrett's copy of this text the last gift she received from her brother Edward, who died at sea in 1840. |
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