| 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 | ||||||||||
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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: 04 December 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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