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Record Number: 33931


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

�You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen�d to it. Ladies praise makes one overrate one�s nothings sadly. However, it was not too bad to keep company with Delta and other periodic rhimers in the same luminous miscellany. One cannot select one�s company in a stage-coach.�

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1830 and 6 Feb 1831

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria

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:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a] [n/a]

Title:

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Politics, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

March 1830 edition; publisher: William Blackwood

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33931

Source:

Print

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Editor:

Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs

Title:

Letters of Hartley Coleridge

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

130

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at No. 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London, from Grasmere, dated 6th February [postmark 1831.]

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 130, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33931, accessed: 20 February 2026


Additional Comments:

None