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Record Number: 33931


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes one overrate one’s nothings sadly. However, it was not too bad to keep company with Delta and other periodic rhimers in the same luminous miscellany. One cannot select one’s company in a stage-coach.’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1830 and 6 Feb 1831

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher

Religion:

Church of England

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:

[n/a] [n/a]

Title:

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Politics, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

March 1830 edition; publisher: William Blackwood

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33931

Source:

Print

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Editor:

Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs

Title:

Letters of Hartley Coleridge

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

130

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at No. 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London, from Grasmere, dated 6th February [postmark 1831.]

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 130, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33931, accessed: 21 December 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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