Record Number: 19079
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, without discovering that it contained such interesting news.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 21 Dec 1824 and 3 Jan 1825
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Haddington
specific address: Family home
(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:14 Jul 1801
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Daughter of doctor
N/A
Religion:Christian
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: Title:The Wishing Cap
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn The Examiner
Provenanceunknown
Implied that it's borrowed or given by Thomas Carlyle
Source Information:
Record ID:19079
Source:Jane Baillie Welsh
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:3
Page:237
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 237, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19079, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 3rd January 1825, written at Haddington. Pages 237-239 in this edition. Estimated date range based on date (20th December) of TC's letter to her in which he draws her attention to Hunt's essays.
