Evidence: | 'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through "Baby May" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 1 May 1850 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | clergyman's wife and writer |
Religion: | Unitarian |
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 Cox Bennett |
Title: | Baby May and Other Poems on Infants |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | published as a book 1859 but other evidence suggests the letter is from 1850ish - maybe she had read an MS poem? |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19410 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 808 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 808, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19410, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Undated letter to an 'Unknown' recipient - presumably Benett himself. As the letter's address was one Gaskell vacated in early 1850, it must date from before then. |
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