Record Number: 19284

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to have of my own, & in print, ever since you let me read it in MS. Thank you so [italics] very [end italics] much for it. I do so value it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 5 Apr 1860

Country:

Italy

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Sep 1810

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer and clergyman's wife

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Eliot Norton

Title:

New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

published in 1859

Provenance

read in situ
read whilst in Italy

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19284

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Editor:

J.A.V. Chapple

Title:

Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The

Place of Publication:

Manchester

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

607

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 607, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19284, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton