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Record Number: 17434


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 18 Feb 1823 and 4 Mar 1823

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Dec 1795

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer / Academic

Religion:

Lapsed Calvinist

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Johann Gottfried Gruber

Title:

Christop Martin Wieland

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Leipzig and Altenburg 1815

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

17434

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Carlyle

Editor:

C R Sanders

Title:

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina

Date of Publication:

1970

Vol:

2

Page:

300

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 300, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17434, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh dated 4th March 1823, written at 3. Moray Street. Pages 298 - 300 in this edition. Estimated date range is based on date of his previous letter to her in which he does not mention this work - it seems to be customary for them to discuss their respective reading and likely that he has started the book since he last wrote to her.

   
   
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