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Record 1363

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... '
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Apr 1798 and 31 May 1798
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:Dorothy Wordsworth
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth 25 Dec 1771
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: Philip Massinger
Title: Picture, The
Genre: Drama, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Apparently from Philip Massinger, Dramatick Works, ed. Thomas Coxeter, 4 vols, 1759
Provenance: borrowed (other)
Joseph Cottle sent Massinger's Dramatick Works to William Wordsworth c. Apr/May 1798

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1363  
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: 98
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1363, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Noted in entry 174 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799.

 

 

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