Record Number: 10009
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sense/ I scorn content and innocence/The gift I ask can these forestall/ It aids, improves, implies them all/Then good or bad, or right or wrong/ Grant me ye Gods! - to be the Ton! ...' [Total = 30 lines]
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1871
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1787
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Daughter of a Scottish land owning family
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:Scotland
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
Identity of reader is tentative
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[The Ton]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10009
Source:Manuscript
Author:Magdelene Sharpe- Erskine
Title:Recueil
Location:Dunimarle Library at Duff House
Call No:DH LIB 2024
Page/Folio:Item 11
Additional Information:
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Citation:
Magdelene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil, Dunimarle Library at Duff House, DH LIB 2024, Item 11, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10009, accessed: 08 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Identity of author is tentative.
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.