Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...]
I was curious beyond the patience of my Eve-ship, & besides grew so interested in France &
the French through my long apprentice ship to the old Memoirs that I felt pricked to the heart
to know all about the posterity of my heroes & heroines. And besides I live out of the world
altogether, & am lonely enough & old enough & sad enough & experienced enough in every
sort of good & bad reading, not to be hurt personally by a French superfluity of bad [...]
[George Sand] is eloquent as a fallen angel [...] Then there is Eugene Sue, & Frederic Soulie,
& De Queile .. why the whole literature looks like a conflagration -- & my whole being aches
with the sight of it [...] Full indeed of power & caprice & extravagance is this new French
literature [...] The want is, of fixed principle [...] Now tell me, what you think? That it is very
naughty of me to read naughty books -- or that you have done the same?'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1842 and 21 Nov 1842 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | George Sand |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17023 | |
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: | 162-163 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1988), 6, p. 162-163, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17023, accessed: 28 September 2023 |
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