Record Number: 24100
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box; where a 'spunk of fire' is lit for the forenoon; and I meanwhile sit scribbling and meditating, and wrestling with the powers of Dulness, till one or two o'clock; when I sally forth into city, or towards the sea-shore, taking care only to be home for the important purpose of consuming my mutton-chop at four. After dinner, we all read learned languages till coffee (which we now often take instead of tea), and so on till bed-time...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Oct 1826 and 2 Jan 1827
Country:Scotland
Timeevening
Place:specific address: 21 Comely Bank
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: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
Not clear whether they were each reading their own books, or reading aloud to each other - or a mixture of the two.
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Unknown
Genre:Languages
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:24100
Source: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:4
Page:184
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 184, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24100, accessed: 16 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from TC to Alexander Carlyle, dated 3rd February 1827, written at 21 Comley Bank. Pages 181-186 in this edition. Estimated date range based on when Carlyle and Jane Baillie Welsh married, and the date of this letter.
