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Record Number: 19079


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 21 Dec 1824 and 3 Jan 1825

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Haddington
specific address: Family home

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:

Jane Baillie Welsh

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

14 Jul 1801

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Daughter of doctor

Occupation:

N/A

Religion:

Christian

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:

Leigh Hunt

Title:

The Wishing Cap

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Examiner

Provenance

unknown
Implied that it's borrowed or given by Thomas Carlyle


Source Information:

Record ID:

19079

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

237

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 237, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19079, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 3rd January 1825, written at Haddington. Pages 237-239 in this edition. Estimated date range based on date (20th December) of TC's letter to her in which he draws her attention to Hunt's essays.

   
   
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