| Evidence: | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came up to London in search of a place as/ servant maid ... Lady Mary Anne was a flower in the dew/ Sweet was its smell and bonnie was its hue ...' [total = 1p. of prose and 2x 4 line verses) |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1871 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1787 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Daughter of a Scottish land owning family |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Identity of reader is tentative |
| Author: | [Robert] [Burns] |
| Title: | [Lady Mary Anne] |
| Genre: | Poetry, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10010 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Magdelene Sharpe- Erskine | |
| Title: | Recueil | |
| Location: | Dunimarle Library at Duff House | |
| Call no: | DH LIB 2024 | |
| Page/folio: | Item 13 |
| Citation: | Magdelene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil Dunimarle Library at Duff House, p. DH LIB 2024, p. Item 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10010, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| A commonplace book containing 69 items, mainly in one hand. On the basis of writing style, nature of contents, dates of entries (1827-1871) and of the material selected (mainly poets from the late 18th to mid-19th century), and the watermark date (1810), the most likely identity of the main hand is Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine, the youngest child of the main generation who collected the Dunimarle Library. Fourteen of the items are exclusively or mainly prose, the rest are poetry. Most are in English. About half the items are given, by the complier, as anonymous and about a third have no title. In each case some 6 have been identified from other sources. |
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