Record Number: 16539

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839: ''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient Dr Cummings book, to read -- "Wanderings in search of Health" [...] His adventures in wandering down the Nile in search of health inclined me to laugh as much as his confession that he was "a physician in search of it'"'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 May 1839 and 4 Jun 1839

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Torquay

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Fullerton Cumming, M.D.

Title:

Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine

Genre:

Geography / Travel, Medicine

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

2 vols, 1839

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16539

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

4

Page:

158

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 158, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16539, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None