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Record 26854

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 25 Mar 1829
Country: Scotland
Time: evening
Place: specific address: Abbotsford
   
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:Anne Scott
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Walter Scott.
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpherson of Cluny]'
Genre: History, Biography, Politics
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26854  
Source - Print  
  Author: Walter Scott
  Editor: W. E. K. Anderson
  Title: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1972
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 539
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 539, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26854, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

Not clear whether this Anne Scott is Scott's daughter, or his niece of the same name. Ewan Macphersom of Cluny listed in Index to source as 'Jacobite,' who died in 1756.

 

 

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