Record Number: 16228

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829: 'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I will say nothing about the science of it, for fear you should laugh at me, in which case I should not have even the satisfaction of complaining of your injustice. I assure you I have read it quite thro', & more than once [goes on to cite specific passages].'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1829 and 31 Oct 1829

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:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Hugh Stuart Boyd

Title:

'treatise on Geology'

Genre:

Other religious, Natural history, Geology

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

1819

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16228

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:

216

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1984), 2, p. 216, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16228, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source eds note that text written 1817, but not published until 1819 (in four numbers of the Imperial magazine), its aim being 'to harmonize the phaenomena of nature" with "the Sacred Records" (see p.217 n.9).