Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 17629

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 7 January 1847: 'If it were not for the Bible & Shakespeare, we might say seriously that we had not seen a real book since our arrival in Pisa, until my great victory a few days ago, of the new subscription [...] Now, we have every evening at five oclock, just as we sit down to coffee, a french newspaper .. the Siecle'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Oct 1846 and 7 Jan 1847
Country: Italy
Time: evening
Place: city: Pisa
   
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:

Reading Group:Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writers
Religion: various
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Siecle
Genre: Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17629  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: 14
  Page: 93
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1998), 14, p. 93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17629, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)