Record Number: 17321

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844: 'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italics]nasty[end italics] -- he splashes the dirt about him, like a child in a guttter [...] Twice I tried books of his, & sent them back again, .. feeling them to be to bad to read. The third time, they sent me a book of his in mistake for another which I had asked for -- & I went through with it, -- & saw so much (getting used to the filth) to like & recognise for picture & faculty, .. that I took courage, -- & have read most of his forty or fifty volumes, I do believe [goes on to discuss author further]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1840 and 29 Mar 1844

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:

Paul de Kock

Title:

novels

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17321

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

8

Page:

283

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 283, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=17321, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

None