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Record Number: 2858


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] all went together to Mary Point [in Bainriggs wood], where we sate in the breeze and the shade, and read Wm's poems.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

1 Aug 1800

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

other location: Bainriggs wood, Cumbria

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:

Reading Group:

Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writers

Religion:

various

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:

William Wordsworth

Title:

[poems]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

2858

Source:

Print

Author:

Dorothy Wordsworth

Editor:

Helen Darbishire

Title:

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1958

Vol:

n/a

Page:

44

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Dorothy Wordsworth, Helen Darbishire (ed.), Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (London, 1958), p. 44, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2858, accessed: 19 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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