| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain power, without any doubt,
but very heavy in many parts, & exceedingly painful in all [goes on to comment further on this
text] [...] nobody in the world could read it a second time [...]
'Also I am reading David Sechard [...] Balzac has bewitched me [...] His wonderful greatness
in making the ideality, real, -- & the reality, ideal, I take to be unequalled among writers. The
first volume I have not finished yet [goes on to comment further on text] [...] I delight in the
book, as far as I have read! -- It is worth twenty "Chouans" to my particular taste at least.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 24 Dec 1844 and 28 Dec 1844 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Honore de Balzac |
| Title: | Le dernier Chouan |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1829 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17603 | |
| 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: | 293 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1991), 9, p. 293, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17603, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Barrett writes of being about to begin reading text in letter to Mitford of 24 December 1844; see p.293 in source. |
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