Record Number: 22509

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I did not want that to become public property. If you had seen & loved Tennyson & his belongings you would know what I feel & how anything in the nature of a Newspaper’s Interview as our own pleasant reminiscence is now reduced to – would gall one. Please don’t let any more of my letters get out. Some time hence when I am hence & personalities have ceased to be so – I will put them into a book - & if they are printed now the freshness will have departed. It was stupid of me not to have issued a Caveat long ago – but I knew you knew I was going to print ‘em some day – and I did not dream of their being printed now. However – it can’t be undone now. Don’t worry about it – only please don’t let it happen again. You could not know how I would feel about it – but you know now.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 8 Nov 1892

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:

Cornelia Sorabji

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1866

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
One of India's first women lawyers

Occupation:

Trainee lawyer

Religion:

Christian [family originally Parsee]

Country of Origin:

India

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:

Kirkham (ed.)

Title:

Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home

Genre:

Biography, Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

As Mr Kirkham [newspaper editor?] was known to the family, it was likely that the newspaper was local to Poona, India

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

22509

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Letter from Cornelia Sorabji, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields to the family in Poona, India, 8 November 1892. F165/7 Sorabji Papers, APACS, British Library

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Letter from Cornelia Sorabji, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields to the family in Poona, India, 8 November 1892. F165/7 Sorabji Papers, APACS, British Library, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22509, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Cornelia wrote home of the famous people she met, who included Tennyson. She also wrote a detailed account of his funeral, to which she had a mourner's ticket - see letter dated 18 October 1892, F165/7.