Evidence: | 'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to entertain Miss M., I took up a Tristram Shandy; and read her one of the very best jokes within the boards of the book - Ah-h-h-h! sighed Miss M. and put on a look of right tend[er] melancholy!! - Now. - Did the smallest glimmering of reason appea[r]? Never.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1800 and 24 Aug 1814 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | teacher, later man of letters |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Miss Merchant |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Laurence Sterne |
Title: | Tristram Shandy |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12886 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Charles Richard Sanders | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Place of Publication: | Durham, NC | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 22 | |
Additional comments: | Letter to Thomas Murray |
Citation: | Charles Richard Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, NC, 1970), I, p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12886, accessed: 03 December 2023 |
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