Record Number: 1361
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1798 and 31 Dec 1798
Country:England
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:25 Dec 1771
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Edward II
Genre:Drama, History, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn Robert Dodsley, ed., Select Collection of Old Plays (apparently first edition of 1744)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:1361
Source:Duncan Wu
Editor:n/a
Title:Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:94-95
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799, (Cambridge, 1993), p. 94-95, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1361, accessed: 11 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Noted in entry 170 (ii) of Wu, Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799.