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Record 8617

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the leaves, I see that it is full of Poetic beauty of the highest value, and that I have a rich feast abiding me'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 10 May 1827 and 11 May 1827
Country: unknown
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:Joanna Baillie
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 11 Sep 1762
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Felicia Hemans
Title: American edition comprising two collections of poetical works
Genre: Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1827
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8617  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Susan J. Wolfson
  Title: Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials
  Place of Publication: Princeton
  Date of Publication: 2000
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 543
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Susan J. Wolfson (ed.), Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials (Princeton, 2000), p. 543, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8617, accessed: 19 April 2024

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