Record Number: 28617

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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.'

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

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Time

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Place:

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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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

5 Apr 1837

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

School pupil

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Emily Brontë

Title:

Wuthering Heights

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1848

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28617

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

279

Additional Comments:

n/a

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: 21 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None