Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837:
'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the
extracts I have seen from it! -- What a lamentable book -- & to be written by a woman -- who
from the weakness & softness of her nature should so feel the need & the beauty of that
strength & surpassing tenderness found in the religion of Jesus Christ, & only there! -- It is
very ill to hold up to scorn the most unsecular portion of the Church of England -- but to do so
by misrepresen[ta]tion & perversion is most ill! [goes on to complain further regarding
representation of religious characters, and quotation from Scripture, in text]'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 23 Sep 1837 and 12 Oct 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Frances Trollope |
Title: | The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts) |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16436 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 288 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 288, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16436, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Source eds note that the Athenaeum for 23 September 1837 (no. 517, pp.707-708) reviewed this text, including extracts, and referring to Trollope as 'a clever woman ... though she seems, by choice, to delight in subjects which are painful and repulsive' (see p.289 n.9). |
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