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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