Record Number: 28610
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher, Margaret Wooler, 28 August 1848:
'Do you remember once speaking with approbation of a book called "Mrs Leicester's School," which you said you had met with, and you wondered by whom it was written? I was reading the other day a lately published collection of the "Letters of Charles Lamb," edited by Serjeant Talfourd, where I found it mentioned that "Mrs Leicester's School" was the first production of Lamb and his sister. These letters are themselves singularly interesting; they have hitherto been suppressed in all previous collections of works and relics, on account of the frequent allusions they contain to the unhappy malady of Miss Lamb [goes on to recount incident of Mary Lamb's killing of her mother, and Charles's subsequent care of her] [...] I thought it both a sad and edifying history.'
1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Aug 1848 and 28 Aug 1848
Country:England
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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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:21 Apr 1816
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
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:Letters of Charles Lamb
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEd. Thomas Noon ['Serjeant'] Talfourd, 1848
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28610
Source:n/a
Editor:Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington
Title:The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships, and Correspondence
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:1:2
Page:249
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships, and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 1:2, p. 249, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28610, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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