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Record Number: 18840


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely he must it is so like him and so graphic'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1819 and 30 Nov 1819

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Eltrieve Lake

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:

James Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

Nov 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

farmer / writer

Religion:

n/a

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:

anon

Title:

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

November 1819 issue

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18840

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2004

Vol:

I

Page:

429

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 429, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18840, accessed: 05 November 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter to William Blackwood

   
   
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