Evidence: | "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'" |
||||||||||
Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1791 and 31 Dec 1791 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1179 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Duncan Wu | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 117 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1179, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
From entry 208 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799; quote from Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs of William Wordsworth (2 vols, 1851) vol. 1 p.48. On this evidence Wu suggests possible reading dates of 10-16 January 1791. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)