Record Number: 33940

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘I flatter myself the Volume [Hartley’s 1833 Poems] has sold tol lol. Dora [Wordsworth] finds great fault with its shape: a fault chargeable solely on my own bad taste for it was my selection, and I cannot, for the soul of me, see any thing the matter with me. Howsomever [sic], I succumb to Lady-judgements and will do better when next I have the opportunity.’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1833 and 7 Oct 1833

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria

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:

Dora Wordsworth

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Aug 1804

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Title:

Poems, Songs and Sonnets

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Leeds: F. E. Bingley, 1833.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33940

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

157

Additional Comments:

Letter to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No. 1. Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated Monday 7th October, 1833.

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 157, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33940, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None