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Record 18144

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: Scotland
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:James Carlyle
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1805
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Farmer
Religion: Unknown
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: Thomas Day
Title: The History of Sandford and Merton
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 3 vols first published 1783-89
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18144  
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: 3
  Page: 126
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 126, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18144, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from TC to Alexander Carlyle, dated 11th August 1824 written at Birmingham. Pages 1204-127 in this edition. Reader and work are identified in Editor's notes.

 

 

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