Record Number: 4396

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading & feeling the effects of a real one, having then received a letter from my sister giving me an account of the vessel in which she had sent my box, being stranded on the coast of Devonshire ...'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

14 Nov 1812

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Rawdon

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:

Maria Branwell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

15 Apr 1783

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Clergyman's wife; writer

Religion:

Methodist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Letter from sister

Genre:

Private correspondence

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4396

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Juliet Barker

Title:

The Brontes: A Life in Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

270

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Juliet Barker (ed.), The Brontes: A Life in Letters, (London, 1997), p. 270, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4396, accessed: 20 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None