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Record 27024

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in letter of 4 April 1844 from Lady Granville to her sister Lady Carlisle]: 'I am rather angry with Charles Granville for having shown the proof sheets [of Ellen Middleton] to Lord Clarendon, and I regret for my own sake that he praises it so extravagantly. I think it is like when a new beauty appears. Instead of prepossessing people in its favour, it will make them find fault with it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jun 1843 and 8 Mar 1844
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Lord Clarendon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower
Title: Ellen Middleton
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Unknown, In proof
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27024  
Source - Print  
  Author: Harriet Countess Granville
  Editor: F. Leveson Gower
  Title: Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1894
  Vol: 2
  Page: 379
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 2, p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27024, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Charles Granville had helped to correct proofs of text (see p.378 n.2 in source). Not sure whether author of text had by this time assumed married name of Fullerton.

 

 

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