| Evidence: |
'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire Campbell or Ossian; and indeed seems to have been a person of delicate discriminations, though not advanced in thought. They were reading "Paradise Lost"...' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1811 and 31 Jan 1812 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Seaham county: Durham |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reading Group: | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain Boothby |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Boothby was soldier (gentry) |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | John Milton |
| Title: | Paradise Lost |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9268 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ethel Colburn Mayne | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 18 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron (London, 1969), p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9268, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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