| Evidence: | 'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for Miss Greener to read these words [about a dying woman's reconciling herself to the idea that her lover might love again] aloud in the whitewashed bedroom, among the plain oak furniture which her friend had knocked together.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Yorkshire | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Amy Greener |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Retired schoolteacher |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Lucy Harrison |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Title: | Catarina to Camoens |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8398 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Charlotte Mew and Her Friends | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 35-6 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (London, 1984), p. 35-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8398, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| Fitzgerald cites Amy Greener, A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison (London, 1916) as source of anecdote. |
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