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Record 3866

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Aurora Leigh ? by far the greatest work of its author surely, and almost beyond anything for exhaustless poetic resource.? (Heaton collection: letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1856 and 1857
Country: England
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 writer
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Title: Aurora Leigh
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1856 according to Virginia Surtees, editor of the text quoted. Reference books give 1857.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3866  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Ruskin
  Editor: Virginia Surtees
  Title: Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1972
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 195
  Additional comments: Footnote to a letter written by John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, which mentions Aurora Leigh.

Citation: John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton (London, 1972), p. 195, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3866, accessed: 24 April 2024

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