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Record 9790

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 16 Jun 1833
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Highgate
   
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:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 21 Oct 1772
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Previously Unitarian; now agnostic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Harriet Martineau
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: "scraps of antique English"
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 9790  
Source - Print  
  Author: Harriet Martineau
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Harriet Martineau's Autobiography with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1877
  Vol: 3
  Page: 85
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman (London, 1877), 3, p. 85, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9790, accessed: 24 April 2024

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