Evidence: | 'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect it to have one grievious fault that of introducing innumerable curous [sic] and original characters of whom you would like to be well acquainted and of whom you hear no more. I have no patience at all with this rambling and deesultory mode of running through a life, and if it do not turn out better embodied ultimately than it has done thus far I shall damn it as the work of a man of high accomplishments given to prosing and garrulity' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1827 and 28 May 1827 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Mount-Benger | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Thomas Hamilton |
Title: | Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) lent or given by Blackwood |
Record ID: | 18919 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Hogg | |
Editor: | Gillian Hughes | |
Title: | Collected Letters of James Hogg, The | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 265 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 265, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18919, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Letter to William Blackwood, the work's publisher |
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