| Evidence: | "As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'" |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1798 and 31 Dec 1798 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 21 Oct 1772 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Bryan Edwards |
| Title: | The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies |
| Genre: | History, Geography / Travel, Astrology / alchemy / occult |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 2 vols, 1793-94 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1000 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 52 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 52, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1000, accessed: 16 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 92 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799. |
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