Record Number: 26784

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Wednesday, 4 June 1828: 'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nine o'clock in the evening. I employd my leisure in the chaise to peruse Mure of Auchendrane's trial out of which something might be cooperd up for the publick. It is one of the wildest stories I ever read. Something might surely be twisted out of it.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

4 Jun 1828

Country:

Scotland

Time

afternoon: 4.30-9.00 pm
evening

Place:

other location: in chaise

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Walter Scott

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1771

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc.

Genre:

History, Biography, Politics, Law

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1793

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26784

Source:

Print

Author:

Walter Scott

Editor:

W. E. K. Anderson

Title:

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

489

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 489, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26784, accessed: 27 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Title of text supplied by source ed.; see p.489 n.1. Source ed. also notes: 'Auchindrane; or The Ayrshire Tragedy was written late the following year' ; see p.489 n.2.