Evidence: | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end
italics], written with great skill, talent, and care; full of curious and new developments, and
some facts which we did not know before. There breathes through the whole a most attractive
spirit, and her feelings sometimes break out in the most beautiful effusions [...] it must be
popular, as it is the most entertaining [book] imaginable; one of those books one does not like
to quit before finishing it.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1815 and 31 Dec 1815 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Isaac D'Israeli |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
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 |
Author: | Helen Maria Williams |
Title: | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 |
Genre: | History, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Published by John Murray, late 1815 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 27151 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Smiles | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1891 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 280-281 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 280-281, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27151, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Copy of text sent to D'Israeli by Murray; see p.280 in source. |
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