Evidence: | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, but Mr. Wordsworth used to say that though he admitted that her novels were an admirable copy of life, he could not be interested in productions of that kind; unless the truth of nature were presented to him clarified, as it were, by the pervading light of imagination, it had scarce any attractions in his eyes...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Poet |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8018 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Sara Coleridge | |
Editor: | E. Coleridge | |
Title: | Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge | |
Place of Publication: | unknown | |
Date of Publication: | 1873 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 75 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Sara Coleridge to Emily Trevenan, August 1834 |
Citation: | Sara Coleridge, E. Coleridge (ed.), Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge (unknown, 1873), 1, p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8018, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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