Record Number: 11160

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly to the opinion of Dr. Harrington concerning him; & the more paricularly because he is uncommonly well versed in the knowledge of English Antiquities,- therefore was I much surprised to find it [italics] his [close italics] opinion that Chatterton was no Imposter, & that the Poems were authentic & Rowley's. Much, indeed, he said they had been modernised in his Copies, not by design, but from the difficulty of reading the old manuscript.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1777 and 30 Apr 1780

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:

Henry Harington

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1755

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

priest

Religion:

Christian

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:

Thomas Chatterton

Title:

The Rowley poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Thomas Tyrwhitt, 1777

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

11160

Source:

Print

Author:

Fanny Burney

Editor:

Betty Rizzo

Title:

The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

Place of Publication:

London: Oxford University Press

Date of Publication:

2003

Vol:

IV

Page:

89

Additional Comments:

In a letter from Fanny Burney to Susanna Elizabeth Burney, dated 30 April 1780, from Bath.

Citation:

Fanny Burney, Betty Rizzo (ed.), The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, (London: Oxford University Press, 2003), IV, p. 89, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11160, accessed: 06 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

FB continues 'A Book, however, is now publishing, that is to entirely clear up this so long disputed & very mysterious affair, by Dr, Mills, Dn of Exeter.'