Record Number: 28759

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Catherine Winkworth to Emma Shaen, 23 March 1853:

'I made up my mind not to write to you again till I had read "Villette" and now I have finished it [...] It is a thorough enjoyment to read it, so powerful everywhere [...]
'I have been reading another book, as unlike "Villette" as possible, whereof there are many parts that [italics]do[end italics] go to the "innermost depths," and sink into them like water into the dry ground, and that's Bunsen's "Hippolytus and His Age" [...] I have not seen the fourth volume yet, and the other three I have read in a partial and desultory manner very unbefitting such a work, but I shall go back to it again. Then there is a great deal of Greek and Latin in it, and discussions concerning MSS., which are unintelligible to the unlearned, and some of the English is not over-easy, but it is worth thinking about.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1853 and 23 Mar 1853

Country:

n/a

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:

Catherine Winkworth

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

13 Sep 1827

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer and translator

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

Title:

Hippolytus and His Age (vols 1-3)

Genre:

Other religious, Classics, Essays / Criticism, History, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In four volumes.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28759

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington

Title:

The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

2:4

Page:

54-55; 55

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:4, p. 54-55; 55, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28759, accessed: 19 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None