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Record Number: 18930


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestly advised by several of my best and dearest friends to let you hear from me in a way to which I have a great aversion'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Mar 1829 and 28 Mar 1829

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Mount Benger

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:

Reader:

James Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

Nov 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

author / farmer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]

Genre:

satire

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, April 1829

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18930

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

II

Page:

337

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 337, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18930, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter to William Blackwood.

   
   
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