| Evidence: | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than it was in winter.- I hope it is not putting you to inconvenience my detaining these books so long[.] If you want them tell me instantly- ' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1823 and 16 Apr 1823 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Haddington specific address: Family home |
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| Reader: | Jane Baillie Welsh |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 14 Jul 1823 |
| 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 |
| Author: | Germaine de Stael |
| Title: | Life of Necker [Jacques?] |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 17451 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 331 | |
| 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. 331, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17451, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 16 April 1823, pages 331 - 335 in this edition. Estimated date range based on her last letter to Carlyle dated 1 April - they appear to discuss their respective readings at length and it is likely that she has only started reading this after the last letter. It is uncertain which book of de Stael's specifically she is reading but it is possible that it is a life of her father, Jacques Necker. |
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