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Record 17175

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843: '[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I read [of] his Death, (I was at Dover) I felt as if a string was pulled out, -- I dreamt all night I was at Jerusalem -- & visiting with him the Tombs of the Kings'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jun 1841 and 30 Jun 1841
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Dover
county: Kent
   
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:Benjamin Robert Haydon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1786
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841)
Genre: Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: In The Morning Chronicle
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17175  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1989
  Vol: 7
  Page: 134
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17175, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

See also p.69 n.14 in source for details on this reading experience.

 

 

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