| Evidence: | Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Writer and art critic |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Probably Britain, but reader travelled extensively |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Title: | Poems, including "Drama of Exile" |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3661 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | John Ruskin | |
| Editor: | Virginia Surtees | |
| Title: | Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton. | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 155 | |
| Additional comments: | From the editor's footnote: "Ruskin had been rereading Mrs Browning's poems, which were to him of 'unspeakable preciousness'. 'I trust that you may be a little pleased by some things I shall have to say of you in the book I am just about now' he wrote to her on March 4th 1855. 'I am going to bind your poems in a golden binding, and give them to my class of working men - as the purest and most exalting poetry in our language. Only, pray, in the next edition, alter that first verse of the "Drama of Exile" (1844) - Gehenna and when a -' (The Works of John Ruskin Library Edition, ed. E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vols, George Allen, 1903-12, Volume 36, pp. 191-2. From a letter to Ellen Heaton (9/2/1855) and a letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4/3/1855). |
| Citation: | John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Elle Heaton. (London, 1972), p. 155, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3661, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
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