Evidence: | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1848 and 18 Oct 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | Bermuda | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda | ||||||||||
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Reader: | John Mitchel |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Nov 1815 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason |
Religion: | Presbyterian family |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | Bermuda |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Douglas Jerrold |
Title: | St Giles and St James |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) library on board the hulk? |
Record ID: | 12740 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Mitchel | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Jail Journal | |
Place of Publication: | Dublin | |
Date of Publication: | 1913 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 71 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12740, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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