| Evidence: | 'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly interesting. The whole Book can scarcely be so interesting to me."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 29 Nov 1805 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| 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 |
| Author: | William Roscoe |
| Title: | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth |
| Genre: | History, Biography, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 4 vols; Liverpool, 1805 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1853 | |
| 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: | 180-81 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (1995), p. 180-81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1853, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| quotation from Ernest De Selincourt, ed., The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787-1805 (1967) 652. |
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