Evidence: | 'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousand, but such stuff! Demme hey, humph."' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Mar 1796 and 31 Mar 1796 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | 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 |
Author: | Thomas Holcroft |
Title: | Man of Ten Thousand, The |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: BookUnknown |
Publication details: | Published February 1796 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1352 | |
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: | 75 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1352, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Noted in entry 133 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799. |
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