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Record 19482

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road struck & pleased me so much, that I looked about vainly for your address contained in a mislaid note of yours, in order to write to you on the subject & advise you to choose some worthier medium with the public, than a provincial journal, .. though it were but a magazine. And now you write to tell me that you think of printing a book! -- to which I wish all manner of success [goes on to offer further advice on pursuing career as professional writer]'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 16 May 1845 and 28 May 1845
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:

Reader:Elizabeth 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Allan Park Paton
Title: 'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: Published under pseudonym 'Heather,' in the Greenock Advertiser, 16 May 1845
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19482  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1992
  Vol: 10
  Page: 244
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19482, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

Poem appeared in Paton's volume Poems (published September 1845); see p.246 n.1 in source.

 

 

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