Record Number: 10012
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/The knell of Time in sorrowing tone / Or sadly tune my lyre to sing/ A requiem to the year that's gone? ...' [total = 24 lines of verse followed by 1.5 pp of related prose]
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1827 and 31 Dec 1827
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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:Ode to the closing year
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsNew Monthly Magazine, [v. VII, p. 23 1824?]
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10012
Source:Manuscript
Author:Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine
Title:Recueil
Location:Dunimarle Library at Duff House
Call No:DH LIB 2024
Page/Folio:Item 15
Additional Information:
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Citation:
Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil, Dunimarle Library at Duff House, DH LIB 2024, Item 15, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10012, 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.