Evidence: | Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of Stuart versus Lovell. What a miscreant - If I had been upon the Jury, and had found that man possessed property that would bear the damages I should have fixed upon ?700 the precise sum which he accused you of embezzling ... ' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 22 Jun 1817 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
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: | |
Title: | case of Stuart versus Lovell |
Genre: | Politics, Law |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | 1817 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1637 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The MIddle Years (1812-1820) | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 388 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The MIddle Years (1812-1820) (Oxford, 1970), 2, p. 388, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1637, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
P.388 n.2 in source notes that Stuart had been charged with embezzling ?7,000 from the Reform Society, and that Wordsworth must mean ?7,000, rather than ?700. |
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