| Evidence: | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - "Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled"'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1813 and 21 Sep 1813 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: en route to Aston Hall, Rotherham | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 22 Jan 1788 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Agnostic |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Grimm |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 2049 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron | |
| Editor: | Leslie A. Marchand | |
| Title: | Byron's Letters and Journals | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1973 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 117-18 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | George Gordon Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals (London, 1973), 3, p. 117-18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2049, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| In n.4 (p.118) Marchand suggests: "Byron might have been reading the lengthy review of Baron De Grimm's Correspondance Litteraire, Philosophique et Critique which was the leading article in the Edinburgh Review for July 1813. This epitaph [...] to a lady of Lausanne, is quoted from Grimm on page 274 of the Edinburgh ... " |
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