Record Number: 1852
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than anything of any celebrity that ever was published ... The few letters of Klopstock's Wife must be excepted from this censure: they are ... very affecting; indeed the notice of her death, coming ... after that sweet letter in which she dwells upon her hopes of happiness from that child whose birth destroyed her, came upon me like an electric shock."'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 01 Jan 1804 and 27 Nov 1804
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:12 Aug 1774
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts
Genre:Autobiog / Diary, Correspondence
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEd. Anna Laetitia Barbauld; 6 vols, 1804
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:1852
Source:Duncan Wu
Editor:n/a
Title:Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:176
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815, (1995), p. 176, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1852, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
quotation from John Wood Warter, ed., Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey (4 vols, 1856) 1: 289.
