Evidence: | 'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to have of my own, & in print, ever since you let me read it in MS. Thank you so [italics] very [end italics] much for it. I do so value it.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 5 Apr 1860 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Unitarian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Italy |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Title: | New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | published in 1859 |
Provenance: | read in situ read whilst in Italy |
Record ID: | 19284 | |
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: | 607 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 607, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19284, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton |
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