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Record 18828

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to its popularity The Notices however are inimitable more finished but scarce so [italics] piquant [end italics] as the former ones'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 20 Jun 1818 and 15 Jul 1818
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: specific address: Eltrieve Lake
   
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 Hogg
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth Nov 1770
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: shepherd / farmer and author
Religion: n/a
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:
Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poetic 'Notices'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: June 1818 issue
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18828  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Hogg
  Editor: Gillian Hughes
  Title: Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
  Place of Publication: Edinburgh
  Date of Publication: 2004
  Vol: I
  Page: 363
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 363, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18828, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to William Blackwood

 

 

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