| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844:
'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it
[italics]shd[end italics] have done, as representing a human being bound, so, upon the
agonizing wheel of an extreme & incessant vanity [...] Did you not laugh out loud when you
read it? [goes on to mock Reade's views on his contemporaries in literature]' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1844 and 13 Mar 1844 | ||||||||||
| 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: | John Edmund Reade |
| Title: | letter to Mary Russell Mitford |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Letters |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 17309 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | 8 | |
| Page: | 253 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 253, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17309, accessed: 17 April 2024 | |
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