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Record 26485

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth 25 October 1821: 'We, including Mr. Canning, admire grandpapa's verses extremely.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1821 and 25 Oct 1821
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Suffolk
   
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:

Reading Group:Harriet Countess Granville, Canning and others in Granville household at Wherstead, Suffolk
Age Unknown
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: lines to Lady Holland
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In the Annual Register for 1821
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26485  
Source - Print  
  Author: Harriet Countess Granville
  Editor: F. Leveson Gower
  Title: Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1894
  Vol: 1
  Page: 217
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 1, p. 217, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26485, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. explains, at p.217 n.2, that text was 'some spirited lines addressed to Lady Holland on a snuff-box left to her by Buonaparte. They are to be found in the Annual Register of 1821.'

 

 

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