Evidence: | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 9 Nov 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night |
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Place: | city: Costorphine, Edinburgh specific address: West Craigs |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Mary Martha Sherwood |
Title: | The Wishing Cap |
Genre: | Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | Unknown anthology |
Provenance: | Found |
Record ID: | 18157 | |
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: | 3 | |
Page: | 192 | |
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. 192, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18157, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 10th November 1824, written at West Craigs. Pages 189-193 in this edition. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)