Record Number: 27167
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815): 'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is very interesting, pathetic, beautiful -- do you know, I would almost say moral [...] I have been most agreeably disappointed (a word I cannot associate with the poem) at the story, which -- what you hinted to me and wrote -- had alarmed me; and I should not have read it aloud to my wife if my eye had not traced the delicate hand that transcribed it.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Nov 1815 and 31 Dec 1815
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Timen/a
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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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Publisher
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Mrs Murray
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Siege of Corinth / Parisina
Genre:Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27167
Source:Samuel Smiles
Editor:n/a
Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:1
Page:353-354
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 1, p. 353-354, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27167, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Not clear which of two texts sent was one referred to as read out loud. Source ed. relates of texts: 'They had been copied in the legible hand of Lady Byron' (p.353).
