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Record Number: 15997


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826: 'Mr Price's desire that I should have read these sheets [proofs of Price's Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages] with the design of remarking on them I have obeyed with much deference to him [...] I have read them with deep interest & attention [goes on to discuss and dispute text in great depth and detail]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1826 and 31 Oct 1826

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Foxley

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:

Elizabeth Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Uvedale Price

Title:

An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages

Genre:

Classics, Essays / Criticism, Languages

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

proof sheets (work published in 1827)

Provenance

read in situ


Source Information:

Record ID:

15997

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

1

Page:

257

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 1, p. 257, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15997, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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