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Record Number: 3566


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint, and he does not help one to mend it."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1818

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Great Lady, painted and drew - charitable work with emphasis on education of poor children

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England (born in Paris, British Embassy)

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Ruskin

Title:

Sesame and Lilies

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Science, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1865

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

3566

Source:

Print

Author:

John Ruskin

Editor:

Virginia Surtees

Title:

Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton.

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

This letter is quoted in the editor's footnote to Ruskin's letter to the Marchioness (W 50, 12 October 1865).

Citation:

John Ruskin, Virginia Surtees (ed.), Sublime and Instructive. Letters from John Ruskin to Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Anna Blunden and Ellen Heaton., (London, 1972), p. 65, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3566, accessed: 09 November 2024


Additional Comments:

Editor's footnote: The Story of two Noble Lives, being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Augustus J. C. Hare, 3 vols, London, George Allen, 1893.

   
   
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