| Evidence: | 'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale:
'This most splendid tale I put into the hands of Wordsworth; and, for once, having, I suppose, nothing else to read, he condescended to run through it. I shall not report his opinion, which, in fact, was no opinion ... "' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| 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: | Harriet Lee |
| Title: | German's Tale, The |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In vol. 4 (1801) of Sophia and Harriet Lee, Canterbury Tales (5 vols, 1797-1805) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1761 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 133 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1761, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 250 of Wu (1995); quotation from David Masson, ed., The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey (14 vols, 1889-90) 3:205. |
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