1742580336000 1713285085000 Standard Record object-110010037 1747160955168 1719854030000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010037 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010037 41008b6f-d051-3c71-b705-649e5c1b7bfb 1 person reference agent-166703 adlib-agent-166703 889773fd-c385-30b3-835f-66f1332fbcc7 Mitford, Mary Russell Length m 177 Width mm 109 Leaf 4 Length mm 177 Width mm 109 Leaf 5 Length mm 178 Width mm 109 Leaf 1 Length mm 178 Width mm 109 Leaf 2 Length mm 178 Width mm 109 Leaf 3 content description This letter is written from London, England. Barrett Browning begins the letter by discussing details of an upcoming visit by Miss Mitford. She goes on to discuss Balzac, whom she says is a 'man of more masterly genius he is than Scott, because profounder & less conventional'. She however criticises Balzac for 'attacking hiw own order' (the feuilletonistes), arguing that 'when writers in France attack journalism, they attack their own profession'. She then discusses Delphine Gay, saying that Gay and Girardin are 'queens of two of the most brilliant literary salons in Paris'. She asks whether Miss Mitford is willing to 'attempt the eight volumes of Frederic Soulié[’]s Memoires du diable'. She is reading it currently and says that while 'much in it is most disgusting', Miss Mitford will 'be struck by the variety of power in it'. A transcript of this letter is available online via The Brownings' Correspondence Project, numbered 1830. It is also published in 'The Brownings' Correspondence' (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 1992), vol. 10, pp. 54-58. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/1/30 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/1/30 110010037 priref 110010037 old reference no. Browning(EB)/26 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010037 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010037 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1845 1845 Tuesday. Feb. 4. 1845 1845-02-04 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford object OBJECT