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Record 16564

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840: '[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a book last week, a catalogue raisonne of Dr Parr's Library in which, among the Patres ecclesiastici "my heart leaped up to see'" the mention of your select passages [from writings of SS Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzen, and Basil] -- by S. Boyd, [italics]1810[end italics]. No observation upon it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 22 Jan 1840 and 29 Jan 1840
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Torquay
county: Devonshire
   
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Catalogue of library of Samuel Parr
Genre: Reference / General works, Bibliography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Published by John Bohn and Jospeh Mawman, 1827.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16564  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1986
  Vol: 4
  Page: 228
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 228, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16564, accessed: 23 April 2024

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