| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829:
'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear you should laugh at me, in which case I should not have even the satisfaction of complaining of your injustice. I assure you I have read it quite thro', & more than once [goes on to cite specific passages].' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1829 and 31 Oct 1829 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| 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: | Hugh Stuart Boyd |
| Title: | 'treatise on Geology' |
| Genre: | Other religious, Natural history, Geology |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | 1819 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 16228 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 216 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 2, p. 216, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16228, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| Source eds note that text written 1817, but not published until 1819 (in four numbers of the Imperial magazine), its aim being 'to harmonize the phaenomena of nature" with "the Sacred Records" (see p.217 n.9). |
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