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Record 9474

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Review," and have been charmed more than ever, I think, with that splendid paper of Macaulay's on Frederic of Prussia. I have read it twice over already, with thrillings of admiration whcih make my very weak heart leap rather too strongly; but it is delightful.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Apr 1842 and 23 Apr 1842
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Livermead
   
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 Francis Jeffrey
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1773
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer/Judge/Politician
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Title: article on Frederick of Prussia
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: (Apparently) in The Edinburgh Review, March or April 1842
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 9474  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Lady Theresa Lewis
  Title: Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1865
  Vol: 3
  Page: 478
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 3, p. 478, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9474, accessed: 19 April 2024

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