Record Number: 4423
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called, by Tobias Smollett MD and others was a much harder and more unprofitable task.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 19 Nov 1817 and 15 Feb 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Kirkcaldy (probably)
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
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: Title:History of England
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEight volume edition published 1801; 8 vols
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4423
Source:Thomas Carlyle
Editor:C R Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, South Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:1
Page:120
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 16th February 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 118-122 in this edition.
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4423, accessed: 28 March 2023
Additional Comments:
See RED ref 2929 for earlier reference to this work in letter dated 19th November 1817. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on the fact that in the earlier letter he is about to start Smollett's work. He does not say exactly when or where he reads it.
