Evidence: | 'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'.
[Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write] |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 7 Nov 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Ballitore | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Leadbeter |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Edinburgh Review |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19560 | |
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: | 195 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 195, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19560, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter from Mary Leadbeter to George Crabbe |
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