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Record 18940

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Magazine. Bobby Chambers' paper, and the Lit. Jour. &c &c'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 9 Mar 1831
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Altrive 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: 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:
Title: [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, news
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18940  
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: 427
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 427, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18940, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to William Blackwood, who sent Hogg the Quarterly Review which included slighting comments about Hogg. Robert Chambers worked for the Edinburgh Advertiser before setting up Chambers's Edinburgh Journal in 1832.

 

 

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