Record Number: 33942

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Ascham all the afternoon. I will often go and read to him.’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

6 Oct 1833

Country:

England

Time

afternoon: all afternoon

Place:

city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria
specific address: Rydal Mount

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

passive in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher, biographer

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:

Biographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Northerns

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History, Biography, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33942

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=33942, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None