| Evidence: | 'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole book.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1876 and 1 Jan 1880 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Oscar Wilde |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Oct 1854 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Elzabeth Barrett Browning |
| Title: | Aurora Leigh |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 14th edn, London 1876 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 26263 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Oscar Wilde | |
| Editor: | Merlin and Rupert Hart Davis | |
| Title: | The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 26 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to William Ward. |
| Citation: | Oscar Wilde, Merlin and Rupert Hart Davis (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (London, 2000), p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26263, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| The book given to Ward by Wilde still exists. It is now in the Eccles Bequest, British Library. See Thomas Wright, "Oscar's Books" (London, 2008), p.33. |
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