Record Number: 27024
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in letter of 4 April 1844 from Lady Granville to her sister Lady Carlisle]: 'I am rather angry with Charles Granville for having shown the proof sheets [of Ellen Middleton] to Lord Clarendon, and I regret for my own sake that he praises it so extravagantly. I think it is like when a new beauty appears. Instead of prepossessing people in its favour, it will make them find fault with it.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jun 1843 and 8 Mar 1844
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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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ellen Middleton
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Unknown, In proof
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27024
Source:Harriet Countess Granville
Editor:F. Leveson Gower
Title:Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1894
Vol:2
Page:379
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville 1810-1845, (London, 1894), 2, p. 379, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27024, accessed: 25 February 2026
Additional Comments:
Charles Granville had helped to correct proofs of text (see p.378 n.2 in source). Not sure whether author of text had by this time assumed married name of Fullerton.
