Evidence: | "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot live five minutes longer without it? ... Observe, I think the poem as a drama, tiresome in the extreme, and absurd, but I wish you to see the very letters from the man in the quick silver mine which you recommended to me have been seized upon by a poet of no inferior genius. Some of the strophes of the fairies are most beautifullly poetic." |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Maria Edgeworth |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1767 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Christian (Church of England) |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Ireland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Sargent |
Title: | The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots) |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London, 1786 (3rd ed. 1796) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4084 | |
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Author: | Maria Edgeworth | |
Editor: | Augustus J. C. Hare | |
Title: | Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth | |
Place of Publication: | London: Edward Arnold | |
Date of Publication: | 1894 (2 vols) | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 150-1 | |
Additional comments: | Letter to Mrs Ruxton (23/5/1806). |
Citation: | Maria Edgeworth, Augustus J. C. Hare (ed.), Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth (London: Edward Arnold, 1894 (2 vols)), 1, p. 150-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4084, accessed: 09 December 2023 |
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