Record Number: 29270

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Letter 22 November 1813]

'I want to read again Miss Baillie's ''Hope'',which I thought the prettiest of her compositions ...'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 22 Nov 1813

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Jessie Allen

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1777

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Lady

Religion:

unknown

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:

Joanna Baillie

Title:

Hope

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

unknown

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29270

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Henrietta Litchfield

Title:

Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1915

Vol:

V 1

Page:

42

Additional Comments:

Letter from Jessie Allen to her sister Elizabeth Wedgwood (mother of Emma Darwin)

Citation:

Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896, (New York, 1915), V 1, p. 42, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29270, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None