Record Number: 19411

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through "Baby May" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.'

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

Until: 1 May 1850

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Manchester
specific address: 121 Upper Rumford Street

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Sep 1810

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

clergyman's wife and writer

Religion:

Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Cox Bennett

Title:

Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Publication Details

privately printed, 1850

Provenance

owned
sent by Bennett

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19411

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Editor:

J.A.V. Chapple

Title:

Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The

Place of Publication:

Manchester

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

808

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The, (Manchester, 1997), p. 808, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19411, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Undated letter to an 'Unknown' recipient - presumably Benett himself.