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Record 1175

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - read, but only to laugh at it ... '"
Century: 1700-1799
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 Wordsworth
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7 Apr 1770
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Church of England
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: Ann Radcliffe
Title: The Italian
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First published in 3 vols, 1797
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1175  
Source - Print  
  Author: Duncan Wu
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 115
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 115, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1175, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

From entry 205 (iii) of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799; quote from The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, ed. David Masson (14 vols, 1889-90) vol. 3 p. 206.

 

 

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