| Evidence: | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845:
'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on Mind" (which of course I managed to do about 12 hours after Mr [John] K[enyon]'s positive refusal to keep his promise, and give me the book) from preface to Vision of Fame at the end, and reflected upon my own doings in that time, 1826, I did indeed see, and wonder at, your advance over me in years'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1845 and 19 Jul 1845 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Browning |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | Elizabeth Barrett |
| Title: | An Essay on Mind |
| Genre: | Poetry, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1826 |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 19486 | |
| 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: | 312 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 312, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19486, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Barrett born in 1806; in letter to Browning of 15-17 July 1845, she had remarked: 'Probably or certainly rather, I have one advantage over you .. one, of which women are not fond of boasting -- that of being [italics]older by years[end italics] -- for the Essay on Mind which was the first poem published by me, -- (& rather more printed than published after all) the work of my earliest youth, half childhood half womanhood, was published in 1826 I see -- & if I told Mr Kenyon [lender of book] not to let you see that book, it was not for the date, but because it is [...] no expression whatever of my nature as it ever was .. pedantic, & in some things, pert [...] those underage books are generally bad' (pp.309-310 in source). |
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