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Record 26857

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Saturday, 18 April 1829: 'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropolis which goes to disband the whole generation of Dogberry and Verges.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 18 Apr 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: Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropolitan police force
Genre: Politics, Law
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26857  
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: 549
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 549, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26857, accessed: 01 May 2024

Additional comments:

Not clear whether reader was Scott's daughter Anne, or his niece of the same name.

 

 

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