Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inclination" -- I tried twice & failed. the
first time I tried, it had just come out with Miss Landon's name on the title page & a laudatory
introduction -- & I sent it back to the booksellers in the agony of a yawn in the middle of the
first volume. A year afterwards I wanted something light to doze over, & I bethought me of
"Duty of Inclination", -- & how Miss Landon cdnt surely have praised it quite for nothing, -- &
how the fault of my yawning might have been in my physics rather than in "Duty['s]"
imaginatives, .. & how I wd try it again. So I sent for the book and tried it for the second
time. My dearest Miss Mitford, it is as nearly [italics]trash[end italics] as any book I can think
of [...] It is the sort of lightness which tires you to death'.
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1838 and 31 Dec 1838 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | anon |
Title: | Duty and Inclination (volume 1) |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Published anon, 1838 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17119 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
Vol: | 7 | |
Page: | 8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17119, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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