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Record 17323

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, Browning read us your letter, a capital one [...] Your advice to him as to his [poetic] language, r[h]ythm & c was admirable & he seemed [italics]really[end italica] grateful for it [...] he read it out to us himself & I can assure you there was not in his manner the slightest semblance of anything approaching to offence'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 25 Oct 1843 and 8 Nov 1843
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Robert Browning
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1812
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Joseph Arnould Sarianna Browning Dowson [Mr and Mrs]
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Alfred Domett
Title: letter to Robert Browning
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Letters
Form of Text: Manuscript: Letter
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17323  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: 8
  Page: 331-332
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 331-332, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17323, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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