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Record 18151

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same page where Goethe was handled so unworthily.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 28 Aug 1824
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Gentry
Daughter of doctor - no profession
Occupation: none
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: Thomas De Quincey
Title: Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
Publication details: The London Magazine, August 1824
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18151  
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: 3
  Page: 152
  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), 3, p. 152, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18151, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle, dated 17 September 1824 written at Templand. Pages 149-152 in this edition. See also TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE, 18 September 1824 and TC TO JANE BAILLIE WELSH, 5 October 1824 for other references to this review.

 

 

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