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Record Number: 29203


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Aunt Fanny [Allen] is in a rapture with ''Sartor'' and feels quite convinced that Teufelsdröckh is meant for Coleridge [...] For my part it is such very hard reading that I think I must give it up.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

23 May 1837

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Staffordshire
specific address: Maer Hall

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Emma Wedgwood

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

2 May 1808

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Unitarian

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:

Thomas Carlyle

Title:

Sartor Resartus

Genre:

Fiction, Conduct books

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Privately printed 1834; first English trade edition 1838

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

29203

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Henrietta Litchfield

Title:

Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1915

Vol:

1

Page:

276

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896, (New York, 1915), 1, p. 276, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29203, accessed: 04 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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