| Evidence: | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palace, Venice: 'This was the thing that first struck my imagination in Venice ... more ... than Schiller's "Armenian" -- a novel which took great hold of me when a boy -- it is also called the "Ghost Seer" ..." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Gordon Lord Byron |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 22 Jan 1788 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Religion: | Agnostic |
| 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: | Johan Christoph von Schiller |
| Title: | Geisterseher |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In translation by W. Bender as The Armenian, or the Ghost-seer (1800) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 2273 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron | |
| Editor: | Leslie A. Marchand | |
| Title: | Byron's Letters and Journals | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1976 | |
| Vol: | 5 | |
| Page: | 203 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | George Gordon Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals (London, 1976), 5, p. 203, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2273, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Further information on edition read from note 3 to this letter on p.203 of source. |
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