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George Stephens : Martinuzzi

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841: 'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of performance still [...] After the fatal first night, sundry corrections & reformations were made in the tragedy [...] The tragedy has fine things in it, but not very frequently & always broken into chips [...] Mr Horne lent me the play -- & now I have to stutter out the truth to him in all courtesy.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      

  

George Stephens : Martinuzzi

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841: 'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of Martinuzzi .. A friend of mine, Mrs Orme (who lived with us once as my governess & my sisters',) promised to procure for me from Dr Stone [friend of Horne's] a copy of Martinuzzi which he had marked the margin of, with "great laughter", "peals of laughter", as the spectators laughed where they ought to have cried [...] It was a transcript of the impressions of the first night.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Tom Stone      Print: Book

  

Stephens : 'Book of the Farm'

'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...] 1853 [...] Grote worked at intervals even at the farm [...] the operations of husbandry were not without a certain "bucolic" attraction for him; the rather as he studied Stephens's "Book of the Farm" with regularity, even taking interest in the theory of cultivation, involving as it did a touch of [italics]science[end italics].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote      Print: Book

 

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