| Evidence: | Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in letter to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'We anxiously examined the newspapers, and their silence [as well as letters] ... strengthened by degrees our hopes with a firm conviction that it was all false.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1815 and 18 Feb 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Wordsworth Family |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writers |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | newspapers |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | 1815 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1520 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
| Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 201 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years (Oxford, 1970), 2, p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1520, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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