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Record 16858

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842: 'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all this loitering with your tragedy? [...] Here it is all safe back for you [...] thank you, thank you, twice over, for all the -- -- -- [italics]pleasure[end italics] is the wrong word -- -- -- [italics]sensation[end italics] is not quite right -- the [italics]emotion[end italics], which this fine tragedy has given me [goes on to comment upon text in detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Dec 1841 and 18 Jan 1842
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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: Richard Hengist Horne
Title: Alsargis
Genre: Drama, Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: Never published; source eds suggest it may never have been completed.
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16858  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1987
  Vol: 5
  Page: 217
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1987), 5, p. 217, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16858, accessed: 28 March 2024

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