| Evidence: | 'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all the more simple poems, thinking myself like his Lucy:
"A maid whom there was none to praise,
And very few to love."
But I spent so much time, which my mother called "wasted", over the book that she took it away, threatening to burn it.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 11 Feb 1872 and 31 Dec 1885 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Hope Woodlands county: Derbyshire specific address: Alport Farm |
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| Reader: | Hannah Mitchell |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 11 Feb 1871 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
| Occupation: | daughter of farm labourer, later a suffragette |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | William Wordsworth |
| Title: | [Poems] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) Given to the reader by a guest at her home |
| Record ID: | 9916 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Hannah Mitchell | |
| Editor: | Geoffrey Mitchell | |
| Title: | The Hard Way Up | |
| Place of Publication: | England | |
| Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 51 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Hannah Mitchell, Geoffrey Mitchell (ed.), The Hard Way Up (England, 1968), p. 51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9916, accessed: 02 June 2023 | |
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