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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Dr Shaftquat Towheed.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

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Figure 1: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1859), by Field Talfourd, National Portrait Gallery

Figure 2: Vernon Lee (1881), John Singer Sargent, Tate Enterprises LTD

Figure 3: Vernon Lee, Commonplace book VI, 25 February 1891 to 14 January 1892, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, Special Collections, Vernon Lee Collection

Figure 4: Rudolf Goldscheid’s Höherentwicklung und Menschenökonomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie. The British Institute of Florence

The Ten Cent Breakfast by Willard Leroy Metcalf, 1887, Denver Art Museum

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