Record Number: 8020
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture of real life, with all the little wheels and machinery laid bare like a patent clock. But she explains and fills out too much. Those who have not power to fill up gaps and bridge over chasms as they read, must therefore take particular delight in such minuteness of detail. It is a kind of Bowditch's Laplace in the romantic astronomy. But readers of lively imagination naturally prefer the original with its unexplained steps, which they so readily supply.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:23 May 1839
Country:unknown
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:27 Feb 1807
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:America
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[novels]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8020
Source:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Editor:Samuel Longfellow
Title:Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence
Place of Publication:Boston, MA
Date of Publication:1886
Vol:1
Page:323
Additional Comments:
Journal entry, 23 May 1839
Citation:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow (ed.), Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence, (Boston, MA, 1886), 1, p. 323, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8020, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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