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Record Number: 19542


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846: 'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend them to you? Just at this moment I [italics]dare not[end italics], because they are reading them here.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1845 and 14 Jan 1846

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:

Reading Group:

Moulton-Barrett family

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Harriet Martineau

Title:

Forest and Game Law Tales

Genre:

Fiction, Social Science, Law

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

late 1845

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19542

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

11

Page:

314

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1993), 11, p. 314, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19542, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Text identified in n.11 on p.315 in source.

   
   
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