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Record Number: 16136


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading several parts of your translation, exactly as you desired me to do -- slowly, & out loud: and I have admired the particular cadences & the general rhythm, all the way.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 3 Nov 1827 and 21 Apr 1828

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Evangelical

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

St Chrysostom

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Other religious, Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In Hugh Stuart Boyd, Select Passages of the Writings of St Chrysostom, St Gregory Nazianzen, and St Basil (1806)

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

16136

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

2

Page:

126-127

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1984), 2, p. 126-127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16136, accessed: 22 November 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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