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Record 19589

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakness, Vice and Gullibility'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 2 Dec 1824
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Trowbridge
   
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:George Crabbe
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 24 Dec 1754
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: clergyman and poet
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: William Hazlitt
Title: Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19589  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Crabbe
  Editor: Thomas Faulkner
  Title: Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 312-13
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1995), p. 312-13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19589, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter to George Crabbe Jr.

 

 

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