| Evidence: | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 30 Jun 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Trowbridge | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Crabbe |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1787 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | curate |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | son of the poet |
| Author: | Walter Scott |
| Title: | Lord of the Isles, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) borrowed from his father |
| Record ID: | 19508 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Crabbe | |
| Editor: | Thomas Faulkner | |
| Title: | Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1985 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 180 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19508, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott. It seems likely that it was this son, not George Junior, as he was his father's curate and lived in the rectory at Trowbridge. |
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