Record Number: 1000
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'"
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1798 and 31 Dec 1798
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:21 Oct 1772
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
Genre:History, Geography / Travel, Astrology / alchemy / occult
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details2 vols, 1793-94
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:1000
Source:Duncan Wu
Editor:n/a
Title:Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:52
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, (Cambridge, 1993), p. 52, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1000, accessed: 08 March 2025
Additional Comments:
Noted in entry 92 of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799.