Evidence: | ?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from that dismal extremity of qualmishness into which I am accustomed to sink when I have ?the blue above and the blue below?. I have always thought that the ?silence wheresoe?er I go? is a beautiful touch of Barry Cornwall?s (otherwise Procter) descriptive of the depression produced by sea-voyaging. I know it?s remarkably silent wherever I go, when I?m on the briny. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 2 Jul 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calais specific address: Hotel Rignolle |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journalist/ Novelist |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | B.W. Proctor |
Title: | 'The Sea' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Unknown |
Publication details: | B.W. Procter?s ?The Sea? in his English Songs, 1832. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12085 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Dickens | |
Editor: | Madeline House | |
Title: | The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 280 | |
Additional comments: | Graham Storey ed. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition. |
Citation: | Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 280, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12085, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Letter to John Forster. |
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