| Evidence: | [Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depressive tendencies:]
'Cowper's poem The Castaway was known to them all, and they all at times appreciated, or almost appropriated it. Charlotte told me once that Branwell had done so'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne) |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Cowper |
| Title: | The Task |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28429 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington | |
| Title: | The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | I-II | |
| Page: | 137 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence (Oxford, 1980), I-II, p. 137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28429, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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