Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. There is power & truth -- she can shape & she can pierce -- but I wish half the book away, it is so tedious every now & then, -- and besides I want more beauty, more air from the universal world -- these class-books must always be defective as works of art [...] Then the style of the book is slovenly, and given to a kind of phraseology which would be vulgar even in colloquial English. Oh -- it is a powerful book in many ways -- You are not to set me down as hypercritical. Probably the author will write herself clear of many of her faults: she has strength enough.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1850 and 13 Dec 1850 | ||||||||||
Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Florence | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
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 |
Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell |
Title: | Mary Barton |
Genre: | Fiction, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | 1848 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19629 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 246 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 246, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19629, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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