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Record 19491

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we could guess that Snowdoun, Knight was King but not that [the - Crabbe uses the 'eth' symbol] Hospitable Foe was Rod'rick-Dhu'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 21 Dec 1812
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Muston
   
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:

Reading Group:Crabbe family
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: clergyman and poet and family
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Walter Scott
Title: Lady of the Lake, The
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19491  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Crabbe
  Editor: Thomas Faulkner
  Title: Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1985
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 97
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19491, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott.

 

 

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