| Evidence: | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "Ancient and Modern History", though he did sometimes read a "novel or nonsense buke", like "Sir Charles Grandison". He had also read Alan Ramsay's "The Gentle Shepherd", and contrasted it ironically with the life of a real shepherd.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1783 and 1812 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Wully Carruthers |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
| Occupation: | shepherd |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Samuel Richardson |
| Title: | Sir Charles Grandison |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | Borrowed (circulating library) |
| Record ID: | 144 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 180 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=144, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Frances Paget Hett, ed. "Memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812)" (1926), p.200 |
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