| Evidence: | 'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read the greater part of it: he was excessively interested especially with the first part ... ' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1 May 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Allan Bank, Grasmere location in dwelling: "down stairs" |
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| Reading Group: | Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | various |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
John Wordsworth (aged around 6) |
| Additional comments: | Dorothy Wordsworth takes over reading from Sara Hutchinson |
| Author: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Title: | Christabel |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1239 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
| Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 324 | |
| Additional comments: | From Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, i May [1809]. |
| Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 (Oxford, 1969), 1, p. 324, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1239, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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