Record Number: 8017
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, but Mr. Wordsworth used to say that though he admitted that her novels were an admirable copy of life, he could not be interested in productions of that kind; unless the truth of nature were presented to him clarified, as it were, by the pervading light of imagination, it had scarce any attractions in his eyes...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
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:21 Oct 1772
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet
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:unknown
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8017
Source:Sara Coleridge
Editor:E. Coleridge
Title:Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge
Place of Publication:n.p.
Date of Publication:1873
Vol:1
Page:75
Additional Comments:
Letter from Sara Coleridge to Emily Trevenan, August 1834
Citation:
Sara Coleridge, E. Coleridge (ed.), Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge, (n.p., 1873), 1, p. 75, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8017, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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