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Record Number: 2049


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - "Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled"'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1813 and 21 Sep 1813

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: en route to Aston Hall, Rotherham

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 Gordon, Lord Byron

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

22 Jan 1788

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Agnostic

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:

Grimm

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

2049

Source:

Print

Author:

George Gordon Lord Byron

Editor:

Leslie A. Marchand

Title:

Byron's Letters and Journals

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1973

Vol:

3

Page:

117-18

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Gordon Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals (London, 1973), 3, p. 117-18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2049, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

In n.4 (p.118) Marchand suggests: "Byron might have been reading the lengthy review of Baron De Grimm's Correspondance Litteraire, Philosophique et Critique which was the leading article in the Edinburgh Review for July 1813. This epitaph [...] to a lady of Lausanne, is quoted from Grimm on page 274 of the Edinburgh ... "

   
   
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