| Evidence: | 'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is conspicuous: I am not sure that I have read all you have given us; but what I have read has really that rare and almost indifineable Quality Genius; that is to say, it Seizes on the Mind & commands Attention, & on the Heart & compels its feelings.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 1 Dec 1816 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Crabbe |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 24 Dec 1754 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | clergyman and poet |
| 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: | Mary Leadbeter |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19562 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Crabbe | |
| Editor: | Thomas Faulkner | |
| Title: | Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 201 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19562, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter from George Crabbe to Mary Leadbeter. |
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