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Record Number: 16353


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getting back [of] "Rosalind & Helen" an excuse for calling on you some evening -- the said R. & H has I observe been well thumbed & sedulously marked by an acquaintance of mine, but I have not time to rub out his labour of love.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Title:

Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

16353

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1985

Vol:

3

Page:

75

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1985), 3, p. 75, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16353, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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