Evidence: | 'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to a little farm called Myer, in the parish of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire...About four years ago she procured a loan of Cobbet[t]'s Cottage Economy from a Farmer of that district, and finding there some instructions about the plaiting of Leghorn Bonnets, she forthwith set about turning it to advantage. By means of Cobbet[t]'s figures & descriptions she succeeded in discovering the proper sort or rather sorts of Grass in the fields...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 18 Nov 1827 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mrs Graham |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Hatmaker |
Religion: | Unknown |
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: | William Cobbett |
Title: | Cottage Economy: A New Edition |
Genre: | Crafts |
Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | Published London, 1823 |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 25935 | |
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: | 4 | |
Page: | 286 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 286, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25935, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Taken from letter from TC to Norman Macleod, dated November 1827 (by editor). Pages 286-287 in this edition. |
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