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Record 16594

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as you well knew it wd be, a great pleasure to me to look into Glencoe -- and yet the play is to my mind, a failure [...] High & tender thoughts there are, gracefully & harmoniously expressed -- which is not [italics]being tragic[end italics]!'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 8 Jun 1840 and 17 Jun 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: Thomas Noon Talfourd
Title: Glencoe
Genre: Drama, History, Poetry, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1840 (second edition)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16594  
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: 286
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 286, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16594, accessed: 29 March 2024

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