Record Number: 18151
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same page where Goethe was handled so unworthily.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:28 Aug 1824
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
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:Female
Date of Birth:14 Jul 1801
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Daughter of doctor - no profession
none
Religion:Christian
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:Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Publication DetailsThe London Magazine, August 1824
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18151
Source: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:152
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18151, accessed: 25 March 2023
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle, dated 17 September 1824 written at Templand. Pages 149-152 in this edition. See also TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE, 18 September 1824 and TC TO JANE BAILLIE WELSH, 5 October 1824 for other references to this review.
