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Record 29341

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I think I have never written to you since I read ''Glenarvon''. I agree with you in admiring it exceedingly in some respects [...] I almost think that as a picture of the feelings, ''Glenarvon'' is superior to any work I ever read.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 26 Feb 1817
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Sarah Wedgwood
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1778
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Caroline, Lady Lamb
Title: Glenarvon
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Published by Henry Colburn: London, 1816 in 3 vols.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29341  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Henrietta Litchfield
  Title: Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
  Place of Publication: New York
  Date of Publication: 1915
  Vol: 1
  Page: 108-9
  Additional comments: Letter, 26 February 1817, from Sarah Wedgwood to Jessie Allen.

Citation: Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (New York, 1915), 1, p. 108-9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29341, accessed: 24 May 2013

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