Evidence: | I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of Loch Leven, with her escape from that imprisonment and from Scotland |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 26 Jan 1827 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | morning afternoon daytime: all day |
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Place: | other location: shop | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Adam Mackie |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1788 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Farmer- rented farm in 1815. Apprenticed in Aberdeen as bookeeper (1800-1805) . Marries 1817. Branches out into shopkeeping and inn keeping |
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: | Walter Scott |
Title: | The Abbot |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4913 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Adam Mackie | |
Editor: | David Stevenson | |
Title: | The Diary of a Canny Man 1818-1828- Adam Mackie Farmer, Merchant, and Innkeeper in Fyvie | |
Place of Publication: | Aberdeen | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 33 | |
Additional comments: | Compiled by William Mackie |
Citation: | Adam Mackie, David Stevenson (ed.), The Diary of a Canny Man 1818-1828- Adam Mackie Farmer, Merchant, and Innkeeper in Fyvie (Aberdeen, 1991), p. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4913, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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