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Record Number: 20659


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 25 Apr 1816

Country:

Ireland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edgeworth's Town

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:

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

31 May 1744

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

Ireland

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Title:

Fare thee well

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
sent by Anne Romilly


Source Information:

Record ID:

20659

Source:

Print

Author:

Anne Romilly

Editor:

Samuel Henry Romilly

Title:

Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

137

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818, (London, 1936), p. 137, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20659, accessed: 15 October 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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