| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I
tried only once certainly -- & then my own humour might have been partly in fault. My
conclusion then was, that I cdnt read him [...] His noise made my head ache, & his loud
laughing made me grave [...] I tried the Log & cdnt quite get thro' it. I shrink too from these
maritime books now, for other reasons.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1829 and 31 Jul 1843 | ||||||||||
| 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: | Michael Scott |
| Title: | Tom Cringle's Log |
| Genre: | Fiction, seafaring |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | First appeared in serial form in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1829-33; reissued in new edition in 1842. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17217 | |
| 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: | 255 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17217, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Not clear in which of its published versions text read. Barrett found reading novels and poetry with maritime themes upsetting, following the death of her brother Edward at sea in July 1840. |
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