| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841:
'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon estimate of it. Mr Landor, you know, says "Sappho" -- and Mr Kenyon says [...]
"wonderful genius!" [...] The best poem I have seen of hers, is the Ballad in Lady Blessington's
Keepsake for next year [...] and I think & feel of that ballad as of the rest, that it is flowingly
& softly written, with no trace of the thing called genius [...] It is right to admit that I have
seen only four or five poems -- but those were selected ones .. for Lady Blessington -- (two
selected by Mr Landor)'.
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1841 and 28 Aug 1841 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Theodosia Garrow |
| Title: | 'The Doom of Cheynholme' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 16733 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1987 | |
| Vol: | 5 | |
| Page: | 120 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16733, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Source eds note that text must have been read in MS, as The Keepsake for 1842, for which it was selected by Lady Blessington, the anthology's editor, was not published until November 1841 (see p.121 n.8). |
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