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Record 5218

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1, and commented, 'Much of the religion by which Wordsworth lives is very indefinite. [...]' ... What he quotes in his journal is the conclusion of the Pedlar's 'natural wisdom' in its pre-1845 version."
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: unknown
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:William Hale White
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Critic
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Wordsworth
Title: The Excursion
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5218  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten
  Title: Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 87
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices (Cambridge, 1995), p. 87, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5218, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Mark Rutherford, "Extracts from a Diary on the Quantocks," in More Pages from a Journal (London, 1910) 196-97.

 

 

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