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Record 17425

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind retains but a faint outline of it. - I did not read the dissertation on the arts and sciences it seemed lumpish stuff, and foreign to my present purpose[.] However if you think it for my good to spend a fortnight on these three volumes I will not grudge it.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 11 Nov 1822 and 1 Jan 1823
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Haddington
specific address: Family home
   
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:Jane Baillie Welsh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Jul 1801
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: N/A
Religion: Christian
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: Charles Rollin
Title: The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients
Genre: History, Science, Arts / architecture
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17425  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Baillie Welsh
  Editor: CR Sanders
  Title: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
  Place of Publication: Durham, North Carolina
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: 2
  Page: 263
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jane Baillie Welsh, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 263, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17425, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 8th January 1823. Pages 262 - 265 in this edition. Estimated date range based on JBW's previous letter dated 11th November in which she mentions having started on Rollin, and mentioning in this letter that she finished it a week before the guests arrived a week previously.

 

 

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