Record Number: 33931
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes one overrate one’s nothings sadly. However, it was not too bad to keep company with Delta and other periodic rhimers in the same luminous miscellany. One cannot select one’s company in a stage-coach.’
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1830 and 6 Feb 1831
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:19 Sep 1796
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet, essayist, teacher
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:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Politics, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsMarch 1830 edition; publisher: William Blackwood
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33931
Source:Hartley Coleridge
Editor:Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs
Title:Letters of Hartley Coleridge
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:130
Additional Comments:
Letter addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at No. 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London, from Grasmere, dated 6th February [postmark 1831.]
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 130, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33931, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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