Record Number: 1233
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he ... sate upon a stump at the foot of the hill while I went up to Ann Nicholson's, and there I found your letter ... I opened the letter in Ann's house just to see if all were well with you, and I then hastened with my prize to William, and sat down beside him to read the letter, and truly a feast it was for us ... "
Century:Date:
Between 6 Mar 1809 and 6 Mar 1809
Country:England
Timemorning
Place:other location: Rydale, Cumbria
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:
Reading Group:William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Age:n/a
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writers
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:letter
Genre:letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:1233
Source:William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Editor:Ernest De Selincourt
Title:The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1969
Vol:1
Page:291
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811, (Oxford, 1969), 1, p. 291, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1233, accessed: 24 April 2024
Additional Comments:
From Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, [7 March 1809].
