Record Number: 33954
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, sickness and sorrow have made her now, but as she was in those happy years when her Idea was shaped in my heart ... The [dedicatory] Sonnet is exquisitely pathetic. Of the pretty poems I think I like those best which relate to natural History. The little Fables are charming, and have tended to reconcile me to a sort of composition for which I had before something like an antipathy...’
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1834 and 16 May 1835
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, 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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children
Genre:Poetry, Children's Lit, Conduct books
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1834
Provenanceowned
The letter implies that Hartley's mother sent him this book
Source Information:
Record ID:33954
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:172-3
Additional Comments:
Letter addressed to Hartley's mother, Sarah Coleridge, at No. 1 Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated May 16, 1835.
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 172-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33954, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
