Record Number: 8398

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for Miss Greener to read these words [about a dying woman's reconciling herself to the idea that her lover might love again] aloud in the whitewashed bedroom, among the plain oak furniture which her friend had knocked together.'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Yorkshire

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:

Amy Greener

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Retired schoolteacher

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Lucy Harrison

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Title:

Catarina to Camoens

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8398

Source:

Print

Author:

Penelope Fitzgerald

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

35-6

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends, (London, 1984), p. 35-6, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8398, accessed: 19 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Fitzgerald cites Amy Greener, A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison (London, 1916) as source of anecdote.