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Record 3664

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you their kind regards. What a glorious book "Men and Women" is!" (Letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.)
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively
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:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1828
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist and author
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Robert Browning
Title: Men and Women
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Published 17/11/1855, 2 volumes.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3664  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Ruskin
  Editor: Virginia Surtees
  Title: Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton.
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1972
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 176
  Additional comments: From a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton (25/11/1855).

Citation: John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton. (London, 1972), p. 176, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3664, accessed: 29 March 2024

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