Record Number: 4321
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree ... You see Sir I have read the "Lady's Magazine" and know something of its contents ... I read them before I knew how to criticize or object -- they were old books belonging to my mother or my Aunt; they had crossed the Sea, had suffered ship-wreck and were discoloured with brine -- I read them as a treat on holiday afternoons or by stealth when I should have been minding my lessons ... One black day my father burnt them because they contained foolish love-stories.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 21 Apr 1816 and 10 Dec 1840
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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:21 Apr 1816
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:The Lady's Magazine
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology, journal
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsc.1790-1800
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4321
Source:n/a
Editor:Juliet Barker
Title:The Brontes: A Life in Letters
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:87
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Juliet Barker (ed.), The Brontes: A Life in Letters, (London, 1997), p. 87, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4321, accessed: 22 April 2025
Additional Comments:
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