Record Number: 5586
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The English language/ has the the [sic] advantage/ of the French in ... /to personification"
Century:1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:county: Fife
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Daughter of a Scottish landowning family
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
Item has provenance
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes
Genre:Textbook / self-education, Language
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsA new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:5586
Source - Manuscript:Other
Author:Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lowth, Robert, "A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes", A new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783 [DH LIB 205].,
Citation:Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lowth, Robert, "A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes", A new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783 [DH LIB 205]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5586, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife. The collection contains a number of the children's textbooks. There is some evidence that this item might also have been used by a least one of the boys. The main period of education of the children was c1770s-1800s.
