Record Number: 17392

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Think of the Westminster Review [...] commending me for "moral courage" on account of the sonnets to Madame Dudevant [George Sand] -- for daring to say what I do, "in the face of opinion." I was half afraid while Papa was reading the passage. I observed that he made a little impatient movement -- & I am sure he thought it equivocal praise for a woman, to have moral courage against opinion.! "That's capital" he said -- just in the tone of .. "That's very impertinent." But the Westminster Review is so gracious, & says so many kind things of me & my poetry, that the emotion was swept away like a cobweb, -- and he forgot to ask me any searching questions. Dearest Papa!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1844 and 30 Nov 1844

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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:

Edward Moulton-Barrett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 May 1785

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Estate owner

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Jamaica

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:

Review of Elizabeth Barrett, Poems (1844)

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Westminster Review, December 1844, pp.381-392.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17392

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis

Title:

The Brownings' Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Winfield

Date of Publication:

1991

Vol:

9

Page:

251-252

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence, (Winfield, 1991), 9, p. 251-252, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17392, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Text read reproduced at pages 374-378 of source.