Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839:
'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end italics] I can confess with one blush less that I have just read it through. People obliged to be dumb like me, & under a medical disciplinarian like Dr Barry have as good an excuse as any can have for reading it [...] The book, if not the reader, is without excuse. It is wonderful in unwomanliness [...] The book is a hard cold coarse book -- a bold impudent book -- & she who wrote it may have COUNTED
many strifes but has [italics]felt[end italics] none'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 30 Apr 1839 and 16 May 1839 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Torquay | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | 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: | Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton |
Title: | Cheveley, or the Man of Honour |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1839 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16538 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 147-148 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 147-148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16538, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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