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Record Number: 19482


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road struck & pleased me so much, that I looked about vainly for your address contained in a mislaid note of yours, in order to write to you on the subject & advise you to choose some worthier medium with the public, than a provincial journal, .. though it were but a magazine. And now you write to tell me that you think of printing a book! -- to which I wish all manner of success [goes on to offer further advice on pursuing career as professional writer]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 16 May 1845 and 28 May 1845

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:

Allan Park Paton

Title:

'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

Published under pseudonym 'Heather,' in the Greenock Advertiser, 16 May 1845

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19482

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1992

Vol:

10

Page:

244

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19482, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Poem appeared in Paton's volume Poems (published September 1845); see p.246 n.1 in source.

   
   
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