Record Number: 33793

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Diary entry, December 19, 1831: The waking was not agreeable. But I read myself into a good humour. Hippolytus is not one of Euripides’s best plays, tho’ it is very superior to the Ipheginia in Tauris.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

19 Dec 1831

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Wellington Heath, Ledbury, Malvern Hills
Herefordshire
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:

Euripides

Title:

Hippolytus

Genre:

Classics, Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33793

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Place of Publication:

Columbus, OH

Date of Publication:

1969

Vol:

n/a

Page:

193

Additional Comments:

Diary entry, December 19, 1831.

Citation:

Philip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson, Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Columbus, OH, 1969), p. 193, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33793, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None