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Record Number: 19479


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 21 Oct 1812

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Sophia Scott

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1799

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer's daughter

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:

George Crabbe

Title:

Tales in verse

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
owned by her father


Source Information:

Record ID:

19479

Source:

Print

Author:

George Crabbe

Editor:

Thomas Faulkner

Title:

Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1985

Vol:

n/a

Page:

91-2

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 91-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19479, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter from Walter Scott to Crabbe.

   
   
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