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Record Number: 24247


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of essays, critical and humorous, it is excellent; but in this part of the world we think there is too much criticism and humour for a magazine. In a work of this kind we expect curious facts and miscellaneous information [...] the personal and local pleasantry which is so abundant in your magazine, and which, I have no doubt, must be delightful in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is [italics]here[end italics] scarcely understood, and in Ireland I have some reason to know that it is a perfect puzzle.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1819 and 24 Aug 1819

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

John Wilson Croker

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

20 Dec 1780

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Secretary to the Admiralty

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Blackwood's Magazine

Genre:

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

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1819

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

24247

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Louis L. Jennings

Title:

The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S.

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1884

Vol:

1

Page:

143

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Louis L. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of The Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.,D., F.R.S. (London, 1884), 1, p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24247, accessed: 19 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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