Record Number: 17309

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844: 'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it [italics]shd[end italics] have done, as representing a human being bound, so, upon the agonizing wheel of an extreme & incessant vanity [...] Did you not laugh out loud when you read it? [goes on to mock Reade's views on his contemporaries in literature]'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1844 and 13 Mar 1844

Country:

England

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

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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:

John Edmund Reade

Title:

letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Letters

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17309

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

8

Page:

253

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1990), 8, p. 253, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17309, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None