Record Number: 26373
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuinely tired of the principal topic as recorded in Annabella's journal — Childe Harold, poem and poet, about both of whom his wife [Lady Caroline Lamb] had lost her head [...]
Annabella could not join in that discussion, for she had not read Childe Harold. And she let another week go by before she did read it [...] on the following Sunday she surrendered to the spirit of the season, and began. Two days later she had finished the two cantos of which it then consisted; in her diary for March 24, she set down her opinion:
'"It contains many stanzas in the best style of poetry. He is rather too much of a mannerist, that is, he wants variety in the turns of his expression. He excels most in the delineations of deep feeling, and in reflections relative to human nature." [...]
Annabella met him the day after that entry in her diary.'
1800-1849
Date:Between 21 Mar 1812 and 24 Mar 1812
Country:England
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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:17 May 1792
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)
Genre:Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1812
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:26373
Source:Ethel Colburn Mayne
Editor:n/a
Title:The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1929
Vol:n/a
Page:35
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, (London, 1929), p. 35, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26373, accessed: 03 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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