| Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845:
'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -- but it is not a love-knot, & it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books -- Did the thought ever strike you of [italics]Mr. [Andrew] Crosse having anything to do with the writing[end italics]? I understand that Sir Richard Vivian [sic] denies it determinedly -- & his brother, who visits here, does it for him besides, by all manner of oaths.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1844 and 3 Jan 1845 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Evangelical |
| 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: | Robert Chambers |
| Title: | Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation |
| Genre: | Natural history |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published anonymously, 1844 |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 19435 | |
| 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: | 5 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19435, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| See p.5 ns 2, 3, and 4 for background on contemporary debates over authorship of text, which not revealed until 1884. Barrett alludes to Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan (1800-1879), scientific writer and politician, and his brother Edward Walter Vyvyan (1808-1901); see p.5 n.4 in source. |
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