| Evidence: | ' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to Roscoe," he told Henry Herbert Southey, "whose book rises much in my estimation upon a second perusal."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1806 and 11 Jan 1806 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Southey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 12 Aug 1774 |
| 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: | 1854 | |
| 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=1854, accessed: 28 September 2023 | |
| quotation from Kenenth Curry, ed., New Letters of Roberrt Southey (2 vols, 1965) 1: 415. |
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