Evidence: | 'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would be the case- but on the contrary I have met with nothing for a long time that pleased me half so well, or that has suggested to me so many profitable trains of thought-' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1824 and 10 Jul 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | Unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | Unknown |
Religion: | Unknown |
Country of origin: | Unknown |
Country of experience: | Unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | First published 1795-96, here refers to translation by TC published 1824 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18145 | |
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: | 3 | |
Page: | 127 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18145, accessed: 31 May 2023 |
Taken from letter from TC to Alexander Carlyle, dated 11th August 1824 written at Birmingham. Pages 124-127 in this edition. Extract from Mrs Strachey's letter is given in a footnote to a reference Carlyle makes to her having read it. I have taken the identification Mrs Strachey from "Carlyle Letters Online" database. |
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