Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely
made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind.
'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and
noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the
personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the
character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1817 and 31 Dec 1817 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | Evangelical |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walter Scott |
Title: | Rob Roy |
Genre: | Fiction, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 15968 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 34 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 1, p. 34, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15968, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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