Record Number: 19284
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to have of my own, & in print, ever since you let me read it in MS. Thank you so [italics] very [end italics] much for it. I do so value it.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 5 Apr 1860
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:29 Sep 1810
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer and clergyman's wife
Religion:Unitarian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailspublished in 1859
Provenanceread in situ
read whilst in Italy
Source Information:
Record ID:19284
Source:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Editor:J.A.V. Chapple
Title:Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The
Place of Publication:Manchester
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:607
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 607, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19284, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Charles Eliot Norton