| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never finished? Did it stop short for ever at the second volume with you as with me? Because it is interesting -- and I am suspended in the air in the case of an interesting book that wont end: it[']s a cruel punishment which Dante should have put into Hell, instead of this side the gate of it .. "that day they read no more." Perhaps he meant to hint it so -- & that the thought of the unfinished book tormented the damned lovers as one of the forms of their damnation.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1845 and 26 Feb 1845 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 06 Mar 1806 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Evangelical |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Frederic Soulie |
| Title: | Confession generale, vols 1 and 2 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19176 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis | |
| Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
| Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
| Vol: | 10 | |
| Page: | 93 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19176, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Barrett alludes to Dante, Inferno V, 138; later in same letter, she writes, regarding text by Soulie, 'they send me, from two separate libraries, only two volumes -- the two first. Was that work ever finished -- or never?' (p.95). |
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