Evidence: | 'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 4 Feb 1836 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Howitt |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 12 Mar 1799 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Author |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | Edward Bulwer Lytton |
Title: | Rienzi |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16722 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | A.G. L'Estrange | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1882 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 306-7 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Mary Howitt to Miss Mitford, Nottingham, February 4, 1836 |
Citation: | A.G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (London, 1882), 1, p. 306-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16722, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
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