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Record 19622

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The History of Pendennis (2 vols, 1849-50) by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by Bradbury and Evans in twenty-four numbers (twenty-three parts) from November 1848 to December 1850 [...] The edition the Brownings were reading, which had been lent to them by Charles Eliot Norton (see letter 2893 [in source]) was probably the one being published in Leipzig by Bernhard Tauchniz. Issued in three volumes from April 1849 to December 1850, the second volume appeared in March 1850'.
Century: 1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1850 and 3 Dec 1850
Country: Italy
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:

Reading Group:Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writers
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Title: The History of Pendennis
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1849-50
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19622  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 2007
  Vol: 16
  Page: 235 n.2
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 235 n.2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19622, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds.' note accompanies letter to Isa Blagden, ?3 December 1850, in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more which Robert is finishing' (p.235).

 

 

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