Evidence: | 'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark staring mad for love [of] her. I have been reading her Journey through France and Italy, and nothing that I ever luxuriously licked my lips over, ever delighted me half so much. The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity for the errors of mankind - breathing such candour, chearfulness and good nature, that I quite adore her. She uses various quaint phrazes, very comical and expressive; but somewhat odd "somehow" (as she says) till one gets accustomed to her style. The original poetry thinly scattered through the work, I do not admire. But a woman cannot have every excellence of heart and genius. She has enough to satisfy a more fastidious spirit than mine'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 20 Nov 1806 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Cheshire specific address: Delamere Lodge |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sarah Harriet Burney |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Aug 1772 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | governess, later 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 |
Author: | Hester Lynch Piozzi |
Title: | Observations and Reflections made in the course of a journey through FRance, Italy and Germany |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17565 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Sarah Harriet Burney | |
Editor: | Lorna J. Clark | |
Title: | Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA / London | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 73-4 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 73-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17565, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Letter to Charlotte Francis, 20th November 1806. |
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