| Evidence: | 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels with the drawback of dull religion in it."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jun 1809 and 31 Jul 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Charles Lamb |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 10 Feb 1775 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Hannah More |
| Title: | Coelebs in Search of a Wife |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 2 vols, 1808 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1780 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Duncan Wu | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 153 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 153, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1780, accessed: 21 May 2013 | |
| Noted in entry 291 of Wu (1995); quotation from Edwin W. Marrs, ed., The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb 1796-1817 (3 vols, 1975-8) 3:14. |
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