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Record 27415

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840: 'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till my return to town, for your kindness in sending me an early copy of the Quarterly, containing all that comfortable flattery respecting "The Dream" [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Sep 1840 and 31 Oct 1840
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: city: Ventnor
   
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:Caroline Norton
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: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: H. Nelson Coleridge
Title: 'Modern English Poetesses'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In the Quarterly Review, published by John Murray, September 1840
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27415  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Smiles
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1891
  Vol: 2
  Page: 417
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 2, p. 417, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27415, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

See p.416 in source for details of article content.

 

 

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