| Evidence: | 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first published in her novel, Celestina (1791), and reprinted as XLIX and LI in Elegiac Sonnets (6th edn, 1792) ... W[ordsworth]'s copies vary from both texts as published.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1791 and 1800 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| 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: | Charlotte Smith |
| Title: | [sonnets (two)] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1388 | |
| 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: | 128 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 128, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1388, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 128 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, which also quotes Bishop C. Hunt Jr's conjecture that Wordsworth shown these poems in MS during Nov 1791 visit to Charlotte Smith. |
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