Evidence: | Sunday, 11 July 1830:
'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have been better. He might have laid [James Fenimore] Cowper aboard but he follows far behind. No wonder. Galt, poor fellow, was in the King's Bench when he wrote it; no whetter of genius is necessity though said to be the mother of invention.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 9 Jul 1830 and 11 Jul 1830 | ||||||||||
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: | Walter Scott |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1771 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | John Galt |
Title: | Lawrie Todd |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1830 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 26918 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 608 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 608, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26918, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
Source ed. quotes from entry in Robert Cadell (publisher)'s diary of 9 July, in which Scott is recorded as having selected this text, along with other 'books of light reading for the journey [from Edinburgh] to Abbotsford' from Cadell's (see p.608 n.2 in source). |
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