| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842:
'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying.
But I do wonder whether the [italics]educated[end italics] quakers make use of
[italics]Thee[end italics] in the nominative case -- whether they make use of such execrable
grammar (for instance) as "Thee bee'st". I never heard a quaker talk, and yet I cd scarcely
wonder or doubt at all about it, if I did not observe that Capt. Marryat & Mrs Trollope & other
writers of at least supposed education, represent their quakers always talking so.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1842 and 4 Nov 1842 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Frances Trollope |
| Title: | The Barnabys in America |
| Genre: | Fiction, Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Serialised in The New Monthly Magazine from April 1842 (concluded September 1843). |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17020 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | 6 | |
| Page: | 138 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17020, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
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