| Evidence: | 'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [end italics] narrative he ever read.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 29 Aug 1859 | ||||||||||
| 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: | poet |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Title: | [MS narrative] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown owned by Mrs Davy, by 1829 |
| Record ID: | 19262 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
| Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
| Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
| Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
| Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 571 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 571, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19262, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Mrs Gaskell to Charles Bosanquet. |
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