Record Number: 33401

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just been reading 'The Letters, Conversations', &c., of this extraordinary man - and must give thee this idea conveyed in a letter to one of his friends' [quotes from Coleridge letter, 8 April 1820 here] 'What powers of mind Coleridge must have possessed, and how peculiarly his own was the manner in which he applied them - his thoughts are unlike those of any other individual whose correspondence I have seen...many of the letters require close thought, and even then I am sometimes unable to make some of the very original ideas perfectly clear to myself.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 31 Aug 1847 and 9 Nov 1847

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Leicester
county: Leicestershire
specific address: Beaumont Leys

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:

Eliza Ellis

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1825

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Amateur geologist

Religion:

Quaker

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:

Letters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Autobiog / Diary, Letters

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33401

Source:

Print

Author:

Eliza Ellis

Editor:

Margaret Ellis

Title:

Letters and Memorials of Eliza Ellis: Compiled by Her Sister, Margaret Ellis

Place of Publication:

Leicester

Date of Publication:

1883

Vol:

n/a

Page:

37-8

Additional Comments:

Privately printed by Samuel Clarke, 5 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, and 'for private circulation only'.

Citation:

Eliza Ellis, Margaret Ellis (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Eliza Ellis: Compiled by Her Sister, Margaret Ellis, (Leicester, 1883), p. 37-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33401, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter from Eliza Ellis to Hannah Lucas. It is not possible to identify whether Ellis was reading the 1836 or the 1847 edition. The Coleridge letter quoted is from 8 April 1820.