Record Number: 33963

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book - but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of course, obliged to the author; but I really think if he had been rather less brotherly, or cousinly, or call it what you will, it would have been all the better. He lets the cat out of the bag. It looks too like a family concern. I think the praise excessive, but let that pass. I should have wished him to treat the sentiments, which you said gave him pain, with no more ceremony than if the name Dan O’Connell instead of Hartley Coleridge had been on the title page. ...’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1835 and 30 Sep 1835

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Ambleside
county: Cumbria
specific address: 'Mrs. [Louise] Claude's' house [Rothay Bank]

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:

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, biographer

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Henry Nelson Coleridge

Title:

[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguished Northerns in the Quarterly Review]

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Biography, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Volume liv, September 1835, p. 330.

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33963

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:

177

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No 1. Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, dated ‘Saturday - I don’t know what’ [September 1835]. Mrs Louise Claude was a close friend of Hartley's and he was a frequent visitor to her home.

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 177, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33963, accessed: 16 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

None