| Evidence: | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of the Tub, both being much to my taste' (Prose Works vol 3 p.372)." |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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: | Jonathan Swift |
| Title: | Gulliver's Travels |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 994 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 133 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=994, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Noted in entry 238 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799. |
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