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Record 16047

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In 1826 and early 1827, E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] struggled with a long poem, "The Development of Genius" [...] She showed it to her father in early February 1827 and he ridiculed it [...] but [Uvedale] Price encouraged her. However, it was not published in her lifetime.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1826 and 15 Feb 1827
Country: England
Time: evening
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:Edward Moulton-Barrett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1785
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Estate owner
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: Jamaica
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 Elizabeth Barrett
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Elizabeth Barrett
Title: "The Development of Genius"
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16047  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1984
  Vol: 1
  Page: 301
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 1, p. 301, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16047, accessed: 28 April 2024

Additional comments:

Evidence taken from source editors' "Biographical Sketch" for Uvedale Price. See pp.358-60 in source for Elizabeth Barrett's 'Untitled Essay' (composed 4 February 1827), in which she describes the episode in detail (including father's mockingly reading work aloud).

 

 

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