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Record 20355

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading his lectures upon "Shakspere," [sic] and upon "English Literature" and are all quite enchanted with them. I think his criticism of Shakspere [sic] is sometimes almost equal to Shakspere [sic] himself. I think Reed must have been a delightful person to have known. Since we have come across it, we have been hearing of it from all quarters. I suppose it must only have made its appearance in this country lately. I think that wherever he is read he must make a sensation as of the great lights of the world.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1857 and 31 Dec 1858
Country: Ireland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Emily De Quincey
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1833
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: part-time secretary for her father, Thomas De Quincey
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Ireland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: Thomas De Quincey's daughter

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Hope Reed
Title: Lectures on History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrated by Shakespeare
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20355  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Willard Hallam Bonner
  Title: De Quincey at Work
  Place of Publication: Buffalo, NY
  Date of Publication: 1936
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 37
  Additional comments: Letter from Emily De Quincey to Mrs. James T. Fields, the wife of her De Quincey's American publisher. Bonner dates the letter between 1857-1858.

Citation: Willard Hallam Bonner (ed.), De Quincey at Work (Buffalo, NY, 1936), p. 37, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20355, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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