Record Number: 17031

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: 'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Soulie's which begins with a violation & a murder, & ends consistently with a murder & a violation, -- the hero who is the agent of this "just proportion" being shut up at last & starved in a premature coffin, after having his eyelids neatly sowed [sic] up by the fair fingers of his lady-love.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1842 and 27 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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frederic Soulie

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17031

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:

180

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17031, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Source eds unable positively to identify text read, but suggest that it was probably Soulie's Memoires du Diable (1838); see p.182 n.10.