| Evidence: | 'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 6 May 1820 and 3 Jun 1820 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Mainhill, near Eccelefechan | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Leigh Hunt |
| Title: | The Examiner |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Strongly radical and under editorship of Leigh Hunt from 1808-1821 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10356 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 258 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 258, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10356, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to John Fergusson, dated 3rd June 1830, written at Mainhill. Pages 256-259 in this edition. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on date of his first letter since arriving at Mainhill, and date of current letter. No other information about specific edition is available. |
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