| Evidence: | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819:
'I think parts of "Don Juan" more beautiful than anything he has written, some wit and a great
deal of bad taste.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1819 and 22 Jul 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harriet Countess Granville |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | Aug 1785 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron |
| Title: | Don Juan |
| Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26450 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harriet Countess Granville | |
| Editor: | F. Leveson Gower | |
| Title: | Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1894 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 141 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 1, p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26450, accessed: 28 November 2023 | |
| On 19 Jul 1819 Lady Granville had already written to her sister of 'a description of love by moonlight' in Canto I of Don Juan 'that beggars all praise' (see p.141 in source). |
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