Record Number: 29342

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have been reading a pamphlet by Mr Coleridge, which he calls ''The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon.''... I do think I never did read such stuff as the sermon, such an affectation of the most sublime and important meaning and so much no-meaning in reality.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 26 Feb 1817

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Staffordshire
Etruria

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:

Sarah Wedgwood

Age:

n/a

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1778

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Title:

The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon

Genre:

Sermon

Form of Text:

Print: Pamphlet

Publication Details

Published 1816

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29342

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:

109-10

Additional Comments:

Letter, February 26 1817, from Sarah Wedgwood to Jessie Allen.

Citation:

Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896, (New York, 1915), 1, p. 109-10, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29342, accessed: 08 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None