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Record Number: 1867


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to the advertisement on the front page of the Courier for 13 April [which also appeared on 5 April] ... '

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

18 Apr 1809

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Sara Hutchinson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

none

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

anon

Title:

Courier

Genre:

Ephemera, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry

Form of Text:

Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

In The Courier, 13 April 1809

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

1867

Source:

Print

Author:

Duncan Wu

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1995

Vol:

n/a

Page:

215

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 215, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=1867, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Noted in entry 385 (xxxiv) of Wu (1995), which also reproduces text of advertisement; quotation from Kathleen Coburn, ed., The Letters of Sara Hutchinson (1954) 19.

   
   
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