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Record Number: 22361


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased with the whole; but with the "Harp", and the "Waes o' War" , she is particularly charmed.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1795

Country:

England

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:

Elizabeth Hamilton

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

25 Jul 1758

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Episcopalian

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Hector Macneil

Title:

Harp, The

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
given by Macneil


Source Information:

Record ID:

22361

Source:

Print

Author:

Elizabeth Hamilton

Editor:

Elizabeth Benger

Title:

Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1818

Vol:

II

Page:

28

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Elizabeth Hamilton, Elizabeth Benger (ed.), Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton (London, 1818), II, p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22361, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Macneil published 'The Harp' in 1789 and his poetic tales, 'Scotland’s Scaith or the History of Will and Jean' (1795), and the sequel, 'The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean (1796) but this book may have been a later 'collected works'?

   
   
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