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Record Number: 17178


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last January in which is your Chinese paper, & fell upon another article called "Turkish travellers" which I had never fallen upon before. Some things in it are so like you, and some other things are so unlike [...] Surely the style is yours -- or I am bewitched, which is possible too.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 May 1843 and 29 May 1843

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:

Julia Pardoe

Title:

'Modern Turkish Travellers'

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review (January 1843), pp.166-193

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17178

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1989

Vol:

7

Page:

155

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 155, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17178, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See also Letter 1272 (p.167) in source for Horne's identification of text's author for Barrett.

   
   
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