Record Number: 28617
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:
'I need not say how grateful I should be for any further information about the glorious and immortal lady whom you have already so nobly and justly vindicated and explained to us. From the first hour when as a schoolboy I read "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" I have always retained the first intense desire I felt then to know all that I might or ought to know about the two women who wrote them.'
1800-1849, 1850-1899
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:5 Apr 1837
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:School pupil
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Wuthering Heights
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1848
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Source Information:
Record ID:28617
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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:279
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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. 279, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28617, accessed: 09 May 2025
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