| Evidence: | "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read those written by Mrs Klopstock, he was exceedingly affected by them and said it was impossible to read them without loving the woman.'"
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1804 and 1805 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | n/a |
| 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: | Samuel Richardson |
| Title: | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts |
| Genre: | Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Ed. Anna Laetitia Barbauld; 6 vols, 1804 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 1851 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 176 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (1995), p. 176, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1851, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| quotation from Ernest De Selincourt, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787-1805 (1967) 525. |
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