Evidence: | 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels with the drawback of dull religion in it."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1809 and 31 Jul 1809 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Lamb |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 10 Feb 1775 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Christian |
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: | Hannah More |
Title: | Coelebs in Search of a Wife |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 2 vols, 1808 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1780 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Duncan Wu | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 153 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 153, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1780, accessed: 27 April 2024 |
Noted in entry 291 of Wu (1995); quotation from Edwin W. Marrs, ed., The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb 1796-1817 (3 vols, 1975-8) 3:14. |
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