Record Number: 16547

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839: 'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St Leger -- for he, a horse, starts, I see by this morning's "Times", with a batch of the rarest -- as does "Avicenna" -- both gloried in by Mr C. Atwood!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

16 Sep 1839

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:

Robert Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

7 May 1812

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

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:

Title:

racing programme

Genre:

Sport / Leisure

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

In The Times, 16 September 1839

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

16547

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

4

Page:

197

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1986), 4, p. 197, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=16547, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source eds note that "Paracelsus" actually listed in The Times for 16 September 1839 as running in the Two-Year-Old Stakes, on 19 September (and that neither it nor "Avicenna" actually started); see p.197 n.4.