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Record 17429

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have made a violent effort to keep my temper-'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 20 Jan 1823
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Haddington
specific address: Family home
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Jane Baillie Welsh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Jul 1801
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: N/A
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Gozzi Carlo
Title: Turnadot, Princess of China
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First published 1762. JBW is reading Schiller's translation
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17429  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Baillie Welsh
  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: 2
  Page: 285
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 285, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17429, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 10th February 1823, written at Haddington. Pages 284 -287 in this edition. Estimated date range based on JBW's letter dated 18 January in which she says she will start Turandot the following Monday.

 

 

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