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Record 1867

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to the advertisement on the front page of the Courier for 13 April [which also appeared on 5 April] ... '
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 18 Apr 1809
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Sara Hutchinson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: none
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: anon
Title: Courier
Genre: Ephemera, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry
Form of Text: Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
Publication details: In The Courier, 13 April 1809
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1867  
Source - Print  
  Author: Duncan Wu
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 215
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 215, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1867, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Noted in entry 385 (xxxiv) of Wu (1995), which also reproduces text of advertisement; quotation from Kathleen Coburn, ed., The Letters of Sara Hutchinson (1954) 19.

 

 

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