Record Number: 19629
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. There is power & truth -- she can shape & she can pierce -- but I wish half the book away, it is so tedious every now & then, -- and besides I want more beauty, more air from the universal world -- these class-books must always be defective as works of art [...] Then the style of the book is slovenly, and given to a kind of phraseology which would be vulgar even in colloquial English. Oh -- it is a powerful book in many ways -- You are not to set me down as hypercritical. Probably the author will write herself clear of many of her faults: she has strength enough.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1850 and 13 Dec 1850
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Florence
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:6 Mar 1806
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Mary Barton
Genre:Fiction, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Details1848
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19629
Source:n/a
Editor:Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan
Title:The Brownings' Correspondence
Place of Publication:Winfield
Date of Publication:2007
Vol:16
Page:246
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 246, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19629, accessed: 01 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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