Evidence: | 'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal palaces, prettily heaped together but without detail of parts or bearing on the story. On the whole, I am disappointed in him. The ugly duck is perfect; the "fat needle" very good. Nearly all the others, too much of opera nymph in them, or of pure ugliness and painfulness - the princess maing the nettle-shirts, and the "grand Klaus" killing his nurse, and many other such pieces, quite spoiling the tone of the book for me.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 8 Sep 1856 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: St Laurent | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Ruskin |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 8 Feb 1819 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | art critic and social critic |
Religion: | Church of England (evangelical) |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Hans Christen Andersen |
Title: | [tales] |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25905 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Ruskin | |
Editor: | Joan Evans | |
Title: | The diaries of John Ruskin | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1956 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 519 | |
Additional comments: | continuous pagination through vols |
Citation: | John Ruskin, Joan Evans (ed.), The diaries of John Ruskin (Oxford, 1956), 2, p. 519, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25905, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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