Record Number: 18060
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind of notice of it in the Examiner (wherein my performance was called admirable!) and lately in the Scotsman (where it was able).'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 13 Jun 1824 and 24 Jun 1824
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Details13 June 1824 edition
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18060
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:3
Page:92
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), 3, p. 92, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18060, accessed: 20 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from TC to John A. Carlyle dated 24th June 1824, written at Mr Page's lodgings, Kew-Green, London. Pages 88-92 in this edition. Details of which edition of the Examiner he is referring to are given in Editor's notes.
