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Record 10279

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the "Quarterly review".'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 19 Apr 1820
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Edinburgh (probably)
   
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:Thomas Carlyle
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 4 Dec 1795
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer / Academic
Religion: Lapsed Calvinist
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jeffrey
Title: Article X
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: Edinburgh Review, LXV (Jan. 1820)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10279  
Source - Print  
  Author: Thomas Carlyle
  Editor: C R Sanders
  Title: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
  Place of Publication: Durham, North Carolina
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: 1
  Page: 248
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 248, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10279, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 6th May 1820 written at Mainhill. Pages 242 - 250 in this edition. Estimated date range of reading experience based on the date that the articles were published (in Jan 1820 edition) and date of Carlyle's letter here.

 

 

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