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Record Number: 19490


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-disposed kind of Man, and not the profligate he would seem to hold forth, I thought the Business of these Gentlemen had been with our verse & prose & not with our Dispositions & Characters [...] possibly the Civility of the older Edinburgh Reviewer (of whom I also am ignorant) may have caused a fit of spleen for there is evidently among even the best of these Critics a Spirit of Opposition as well as Emulation & I think whichsoever of the two Reviews the Quarterly or Edinboro I read first on any Author whose Subject I am acquainted with, I can foretell what the rival brother will observe: this I have seen in their Examinations of you of myself of Miss Edgeworth'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 21 Dec 1812

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Muston

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:

George Crabbe

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

24 Dec 1754

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

clergyman and poet

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Edinburgh Review

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

xx (1812)

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19490

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:

94-5

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 94-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19490, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott.

   
   
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