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] |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 26 Sep 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
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 |
Record ID: | 19506 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
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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