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Record 17398

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844: 'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward to in the Eldon memoirs, as Pincher's biography. I am only in the first volume. Are English chancellors really made of such stuff? Pincher will help to reconcile me to the Law lords perhaps.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Dec 1844 and 10 Dec 1844
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:Elizabeth Barrett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 6 Mar 1806
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Horace Twiss
Title: The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1)
Genre: History, Biography, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1844
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17398  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1991
  Vol: 9
  Page: 266
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1991), 9, p. 266, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17398, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds note that 'Pincher' was Eldon's favourite dog, and that 'an account of his theft and recovery appears in volume 3 [of the text read]'; this subject would have been of interest to Barrett, given her experience of having had her own beloved spaniel Flush stolen (and also recovered). Source eds also note that 'It is likely that [Barrett] was reading the copy [of Twiss's work] that her brother Alfred had won the previous month in a private raffle'; see p.267 n.5.

 

 

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