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Record Number: 19438


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a Bruxelles edition with serveral feuilletons about it appended thereunto, especially a letter to the authoress by Jules Janin, one of his best'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mary Russell Mitford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1787

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Delphine de Girardin

Title:

L'Ecole des journalistes

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Brussells, 1840

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19438

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1992

Vol:

10

Page:

127 n.3

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1992), 10, p. 127 n.3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19438, accessed: 03 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation taken by source eds. from Mary Russell Mitford: Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin (1914) p.179.

   
   
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