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Record 19079

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 21 Dec 1824 and 3 Jan 1825
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Haddington
specific address: Family home
   
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:Jane Baillie Welsh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Jul 1801
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Daughter of doctor
Occupation: N/A
Religion: Christian
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: Leigh Hunt
Title: The Wishing Cap
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In The Examiner
Provenance: unknown
Implied that it's borrowed or given by Thomas Carlyle

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19079  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Baillie Welsh
  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: 237
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 237, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19079, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 3rd January 1825, written at Haddington. Pages 237-239 in this edition. Estimated date range based on date (20th December) of TC's letter to her in which he draws her attention to Hunt's essays.

 

 

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