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Record 1215

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read Mrs Hutchinson's account of the troubles there in Oliver Cromwell's time.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Feb 1807 and 19 Jul 1807
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:

Reading Group:Wordsworth Family
Age Unknown
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: various
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: Lucy Hutchinson
Title: Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
Genre: History, Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1806
Provenance: unknown
Sent by Lady Beaumont

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1215  
Source - Print  
  Author: William and Dorothy Wordsworth
  Editor: Ernest De Selincourt
  Title: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1969
  Vol: 1
  Page: 157
  Additional comments: From Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 19 July [1807].

Citation: William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 (Oxford, 1969), 1, p. 157, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1215, accessed: 20 April 2024

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