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Record Number: 17022


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842: 'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Blessington's Annual [...] The annual is fuller of trash than usual I think, which is saying a good deal of ill. His own contribution indeed is a very excellent & poetical paraphrase of Schiller's "Gods of Greece" -- & there is a prose story by Mr Landor which has much beauty in his peculiar manner, -- & there is, moreover, a graceful fairy story by Miss Garrow, which I prefer to her last year's ballad, although retaining my opinion of the want of individuality & of power.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 11 Nov 1842 and 12 Nov 1842

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:

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:

John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia Garrow

Title:

The Keepsake for 1843

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. Lady Blessington, 1842.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17022

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

6

Page:

149

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17022, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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