Record Number: 29453

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Letter]

'You were quite right in telling me I should like Bunsen if I persevered. [...] It is consoling to read such an intensely happy life as his was from beginning to end. [...] I shall be quite sorry to finish the book, and it does one good to enter into such a mind.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1869 and 8 Feb 1869

Country:

England

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:

Emma Darwin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

2 May 1808

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

wife & mother

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frances, Baroness Bunsen

Title:

Memoirs of Baron Bunsen

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1st ed. London 1868, 2nd ed. (abbreviated) London 1869

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29453

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Henrietta Litchfield

Title:

Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1915

Vol:

2

Page:

194

Additional Comments:

Letter from Emma Darwin to her aunt, Fanny Allen, Monday Feb 8 [1869]'

Citation:

Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896, (New York, 1915), 2, p. 194, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29453, accessed: 26 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None