Record Number: 19611
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found it heavy, I confess, though in [...] the compositional savoir faire, there is an advance. Robert has exhumed some French books, just now, from a little circulating li[brary] which we had not tried -- and we have just been making ourselves uncomfortable over Balzac's "Cousin Pons". But what a wonderful writer he is! Who could have taken such a subject, out of the lowest mud of humaity, & glorified & consecrated it?'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Feb 1850 and 2 Apr 1850
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: Florence
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:6 Mar 1806
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Shirley
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1849
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19611
Source:n/a
Editor:Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan
Title:The Brownings' Correspondence
Place of Publication:Winfield
Date of Publication:2007
Vol:16
Page:90
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 2007), 16, p. 90, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19611, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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