| Evidence: | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magnificent, and the effect of Granville [husband] reading it out loud to me was that I roared [i.e. wept] till I could neither hear nor see. The scene, too, in "Sardanapalus" where Myrrha says "Oh, frown not on me," and the speech, "Why do I love this man?" I think beautiful and affecting.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1821 and 1 Jan 1822 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Sardanapalus |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26489 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | F. Leveson Gower | |
| Title: | Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1894 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 219 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 1, p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26489, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
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