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Record Number: 2348


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: Jul 1847

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:

Mary Russell Mitford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1787

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

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:

Caroline Clive

Title:

The Queen's Ball: A Poem

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Saunders & Otley, 1847

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

2348

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Mary Russell Mitford

Title:

Letter to Caroline Clive, c. July 1847

Location:

Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford

Call No:

MS Whitfield C63

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Mary Russell Mitford, Letter to Caroline Clive, c. July 1847 Collection of Edward Clive, Whitfield, Wormbridge, Hereford, p. MS Whitfield C63, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2348, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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