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Record 18916

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial to my mind. The ease and simple elegance of the stile is exquisite. That work should certainly have a great circulation I have great faults with Mrs Johnston's work in which there is however great genius but the anachronisms are without end and the characters too much borrowed from Scott Beyond all the story is forced and confused beyond all measures. Our ladies were pleased with it beyond measure so it must have something very fascinating'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1826 and 5 Apr 1827
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Mount-Benger
   
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: farmer / 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: R.P. Gillies
Title: German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffmann, De la Motte-0Fouque, Pichler, Kruse, and others
Genre: Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
given or lent by Blackwood

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18916  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Hogg
  Editor: Gillian Hughes
  Title: Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
  Place of Publication: Edinburgh
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: II
  Page: 261
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 261, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18916, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to William Blackwood.

 

 

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