Evidence: | I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet versed in sentiment, I had a secret dread I should not cry enough to gain the credit of proper sensibility. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 4 Sep 1826 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: a friend's house | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Lady Louisa Stuart |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 12 Aug 1757 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | writer, poet, literary critic |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
friends (identity unspecified) |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Mackenzie |
Title: | The Man of Feeling |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | first publication: 1771 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4459 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Wilfred Partington | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Private Letter-Books of Sir Walter Scott | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1930 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 273 | |
Additional comments: | Lady Louisa Stuart, Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 4 September 1826. The passage contains reflections on "the alterations of taste produced by time". |
Citation: | Wilfred Partington, The Private Letter-Books of Sir Walter Scott (London, 1930), p. 273, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4459, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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