| Evidence: | [Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The English language/ has the the [sic] advantage/ of the French in ... /to personification" |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Fife | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Miss Erskine |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Daughter of a Scottish landowning family |
| 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: | Item has provenance |
| Author: | Robert Lowth |
| Title: | A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Language |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | A new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 5586 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lowth, Robert, "A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes", A new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783 [DH LIB 205]., |
| Citation: | Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Lowth, Robert, "A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes", A new edition, corrected, London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and T. Cadell, 1783 [DH LIB 205]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5586, accessed: 21 March 2023 |
| The item is in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie, Fife. The collection contains a number of the children's textbooks. There is some evidence that this item might also have been used by a least one of the boys. The main period of education of the children was c1770s-1800s. |
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