Record Number: 20609
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 7 Nov 1814
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:1773
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
nee Garbett
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20609
Source:Anne Romilly
Editor:Samuel Henry Romilly
Title:Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:92
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818, (London, 1936), p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20609, accessed: 28 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Date of birth a guess - she was married in Jan. 1798, aged about 24.
