Evidence: | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... If you borrow Emily's Wordsworth you will read not Wordsworth but Emily's Wordsworth. She will fearlessly correct and alter passages. She does not read; she flings herself upon and passionately possess a work...' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 28 Sep 1936 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Emily Coleman |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | America |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Wordsworth |
Title: | [Poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 19730 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Antonia White | |
Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 79 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 79, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19730, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
EC lived in England and Paris in the 1920s to the 1960s |
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