Evidence: | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text] "Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in robes of richest dress/ In gorgeous splendour showing forth/ Preeminence in loveliness/... " [Total = 9 x 6 line verses] |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1810 and 1871 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1787 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Daughter of a Scottish landowning family |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Identity of reader is tentative |
Author: | Innes[?] |
Title: | Lines on Mountghaine [?] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 10182 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | |
Title: | Recueil | |
Location: | Dunimarle Library at Duff House | |
Call no: | DH LIB 2024 | |
Page/folio: | Item 61 |
Citation: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil Dunimarle Library at Duff House, p. DH LIB 2024, p. Item 61, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10182, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
A commonplace book containing 69 items, mainly in one hand. On the basis of writing style, nature of contents, dates of entries (1827-1871) and of the material selected (mainly poets from the late 18th to mid-19th century), and the watermark date (1810), the most likely identity of the main hand is Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine, the youngest child of the main generation who collected the Dunimarle Library. Fourteen of the items are exclusively or mainly prose, the rest are poetry. Most are in English. About half the items are given, by the compiler, as anonymous and about a third have no title. In each case some 6 have been identified from other sources. |
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