Record Number: 8018

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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

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:

William Wordsworth

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

7 Apr 1770

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Jane Austen

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8018

Source:

Print

Author:

Sara Coleridge

Editor:

E. Coleridge

Title:

Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Place of Publication:

unknown

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, (unknown, 1873), 1, p. 75, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8018, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None