Record Number: 26398
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. With the first she was highly pleased, from its [italics]effusion-of-feeling[end italics] character; the 2nd she thought laboured and inferior in pathos; the 3rd very amusing though very unlike the person." This disproves once for all the legend the legend invented by Teresa Guiccioli [Byron's last mistress] that Ada never heard of her father's poetry until a year before she died in 1852!'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1831 and 30 Jun 1831
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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
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Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Ada Byron (reader and text author's daughter, b. 1815)
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:26398
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
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Page:325
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, (London, 1929), p. 325, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26398, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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