Record Number: 22511
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow. I nearly died with inward mirth. She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in. She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 23 Dec 1892
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1866
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
One of India's first women lawyers
Trainee lawyer
Religion:Christian [family originally Parsee]
Country of Origin:India
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Cornelia's niece Elsie, young daughter of her sister Pheroze
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:22511
Source - Manuscript:Other
Author:F165/7 Sorabji Papers, APACS, British Library,
Citation:F165/7 Sorabji Papers, APACS, British Library, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22511, accessed: 20 March 2023
Additional Comments:
Although not specified, the book is likely to have been 'Old-World Idylls and Other Verses'
