Evidence: | 'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all that is yet published of the autobiographical life of Perthes; no, I see it is not [italics] all [end italics] translated - they have stopped, when we novelists do - at the end of the adventures, & when Perthes is re-instated in his business, & in a fair way of doing well for himself. You probably know enough of his history &c to enable you in some measure to judge for yourself of the kind of book it is. A young German bourgeois, who makes his own way from nothing to a station of great wealth & influence both commercial & political: (he was a bookseller, &c) the personal story is very interesting & includes an account of the French occupation of Hamburgh &c.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 5 Oct 1853 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester specific address: 84 Plymouth Grove |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer and clergyman's wife |
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: | Frederick Perthes |
Title: | Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848 |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | published in German but the text referred to here is an unpublished translation by Miss Winkworth |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) entrusted to Gaskell by Winkworth |
Record ID: | 19135 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 251 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 251, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19135, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to the publisher, Bentley |
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