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Record Number: 15999


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hopend [sic; for Hope End, Barrett's family home], I shewed him what I had just been writing on the Charter-house mode of pronouncing [classical Greek], chiefly that of their passing over the vowel to the consonant in iambi & pyrrhics but continuing to accent them, as we do, on the first syllable: He read it with more interest than he is apt to do on such subjects, & wished me to go on with it'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1826 and 20 Dec 1826

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:

[probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1794

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unkonwn

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:

dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek

Genre:

Classics, Essays / Criticism, Languages

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

15999

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:

274

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 1, p. 274, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=15999, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See p.277 n.1 in source for editors' conjecture as to reader's identity.

   
   
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