Record Number: 33721

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Diary entry, 29 August 1831 "I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They seem to me ingenious and satisfactory".

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

29 Aug 1831

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Wellington Heath, Ledbury, Malvern Hills,
county: Herefordshire
specific address: Hope End

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:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

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:

Richard Dawes

Title:

Miscellanea Critica

Genre:

Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33721

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Editor:

Kelly & Hudson Philip & Ronald

Title:

Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Place of Publication:

Athens, OH

Date of Publication:

1969

Vol:

n/a

Page:

107

Additional Comments:

Diary entry, 29 August 1831

Citation:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kelly & Hudson Philip & Ronald (ed.), Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Athens, OH, 1969), p. 107, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33721, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None