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Record 19506

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed she loved another] 'there was all this Time a Friend, who read every Letter & every Verse, for I took every Method that was allowed me, & Strange Creatures are Men & Women! While I was thus attentive to raise some partial feelings in the Mind of the Gipsy who wrote to me, this other who only read what was written, became interested & engaged & at length You must give me Credit strange as it is! She caught my Disease: it did not Signify to her that I was as old as her father! I could write in just that Style which she had fancied to be that of genuine Affection & Truth'. [Crabbe and Charlotte Ridout became engaged, but it was broken off for financial reasons]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 26 Sep 1814
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:Charlotte Ridout
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
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: George Crabbe
Title: [letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend Charlotte Williams]
Genre: letters
Form of Text: Manuscript: Letter
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19506  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Crabbe
  Editor: Thomas Faulkner
  Title: Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1985
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 173
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 173, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19506, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Elizabeth Charter, 5th May 1815 - the engagement happened in Sept 1814; Charlotte died in 1831 but her d.o.b. is uncertain.

 

 

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