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Record Number: 18941


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wilson [TEAR] poem is most splendid but I have never been able to get straight through it nor I don't think any man ever will'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1831 and 15 Aug 1831

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Altrive 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 / author

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:

Caroline Bowles Southey

Title:

'La petite Madelaine'

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, August 1831

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

18941

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

II

Page:

449

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 449, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18941, accessed: 06 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter to William Blackwood.

   
   
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