| Evidence: | From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Aurora Leigh ? by far the greatest work of its author surely, and almost beyond anything for exhaustless poetic resource.? (Heaton collection: letters written to Ellen Heaton; sold in 1969; whereabouts unknown.
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1856 and 1857 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1828 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Artist and writer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Title: | Aurora Leigh |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1856 according to Virginia Surtees, editor of the text quoted. Reference books give 1857. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3866 | |
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| Author: | John Ruskin | |
| Editor: | Virginia Surtees | |
| Title: | Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 195 | |
| Additional comments: | Footnote to a letter written by John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, which mentions Aurora Leigh. |
| Citation: | John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and InstructiveLetters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton (London, 1972), p. 195, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3866, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
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