Record Number: 33732

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Diary entry, June 21, 1831: "Well – but we began to read the Seven Chiefs out of Blomfield’s edition; & were very happy."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

21 Jun 1831

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Malvern Hills, Ledbury, Wellington Heath
county: Herefordshire
specific address: Hope End

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 Browning

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1806

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

Evangelical Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Hugh Stuart Boyd

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Aeschylus

Title:

Septem Apud Thebas

Genre:

Classics, Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Aeschylus. Septem contra Thebas. Edited by C.J. Blomfield. Third edition. London, 1824.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33732

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

Editor:

Phillip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson

Title:

Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Place of Publication:

Athens, OH

Date of Publication:

1969

Vol:

n/a

Page:

25

Additional Comments:

Diary entry, June 21, 1831

Citation:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning,, Phillip & Ronald Kelley & Hudson (ed.), Diary of E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Athens, OH, 1969), p. 25, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33732, accessed: 13 March 2025

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Additional Comments:

- Editor's note in a different entry: "Presumably [she is reading] the 1824 Blomfield edition which formed Lot 313 of the 1913 Browning Sale." BOOK DETAILS: A0023] Aeschylus. Septem contra Thebas. Edited by C.J. Blomfield. Third edition. London, 1824. § Inscribed by RB on title-page: (Robert & E. B. B. whose notes occur). Marginal notes in the hand of EBB occur on practically every page. § See Reconstruction, plate 2. § Browning Collections, lot 313, purchased by Spencer. Offered for sale by Maggs, Catalogue 511 (1928), item 285. [ ]