| Evidence: | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It cannot die, it cannot stay/ But leaves its darken'd dust behind ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses] |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1871 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1787 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | Daughter of Scottish land owning family |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Identity of reader is tentative |
| Author: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Title: | When coldness wraps this suffering clay |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | [one of the Hebrew melodies] |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9952 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | |
| Title: | Recueil | |
| Location: | Dunimarle Library at Duff House | |
| Call no: | DH LIB 2024 | |
| Page/folio: | Item 2 |
| Citation: | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil Dunimarle Library at Duff House, p. DH LIB 2024, p. Item 2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9952, accessed: 28 November 2023 | |
| A commonplace book containing 69 items, mainly in one hand. On the basis of writing style, nature of contents, dates of entries (1827-1871) and of the material selected (mainly poets from the late 18th to mid-19th century), and the watermark date (1810), the most likely identity of the main hand is Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine, the youngest child of the main generation who collected the Dunimarle Library. Fourteen of the items are exclusively or mainly prose, the rest are poetry. Most are in English. About half the items are given, by the complier, as anonymous and about a third have no title. In each case some 6 have been identified from other sources. |
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