Record Number: 11319
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (see Blackwood's Magazine); and to-night, I am alone in this cold city - alone to cut my way into the heart of its benefices by the weapons of my own small quiver.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:1 Jan 1821
Country:Scotland
Timen/anight
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine'
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsFirst published 1791 - 1793
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11319
Source:Thomas Carlyle
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:1
Page:302
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 302, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=11319, accessed: 07 December 2023
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Alexander Carlyle, dated 2nd January 1821, written at Edinburgh. Pages 299 - 302 in this edition. The article about John Gibson Lockhart by Dr Scott appeared in The London Magazine, XI (Nov. 1820), pp. 509-21. Editor's note states that Scott's attacks continued for two more issues (Dec 1820 and Jan 1821) and culminated in a duel between Scott and JH Christie (an intimate of Lockhart's) in which Scott suffered a wound from which he later died.