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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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John Westland Marston : Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband only saw it in the reading room, where women dont penetrate, (because in Italy we cant read, you see) & where the periodicals are kept so strictly like Hesperian apples, by the dragons of the place, that none can be stolen away for even half an hour. So he could only wish me to catch sight of that article -- and you are good enough to send it & oblige us both accordingly.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

  

John Westland Marston : Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband only saw it in the reading room, where women dont penetrate, (because in Italy we cant read, you see) & where the periodicals are kept so strictly like Hesperian apples, by the dragons of the place, that none can be stolen away for even half an hour. So he could only wish me to catch sight of that article -- and you are good enough to send it & oblige us both accordingly.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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