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Record 27195

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand thanks for your kindness in lending it to me. It will surely please him (Byron) whom it most concerns.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1818 and 31 Jul 1818
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Augusta Leigh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Edinburgh Review
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1818
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27195  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Smiles
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1891
  Vol: 1
  Page: 396
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 396, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27195, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

'Review' apparently contained review of work by Byron.

 

 

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