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Record Number: 19647


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 10 Nov 1831

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Pucklechurch
specific address: his son George's rectory

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

George Crabbe

Title:

[sermons]

Genre:

Sermon

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
sent by his son, John


Source Information:

Record ID:

19647

Source:

Print

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:

381

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 381, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19647, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter from George Crabbe to John Waldron Crabbe. Sermons being by Crabbe is only a guess - they could have been JWC's?

   
   
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