Record Number: 24054
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1884 and 31 Dec 1886
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Surrey
specific address: Borough Farm
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(Listener):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:11 Jun 1751
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Pensees
Genre:Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin French
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:24054
Source:Janet Penrose Trevelyan
Editor:n/a
Title:The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1923
Vol:n/a
Page:47
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward, (London, 1923), p. 47, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24054, accessed: 22 November 2024
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