Record Number: 26592

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Sunday 9 April 1826: 'Lockhart's Review -- Don't like his article on Sheridan's Life. There is no breadth in it, no general views -- the whole flung away in smart but party criticism [...] he lets himself too easily into that advocatism of stile which is that of a pleader not a judge or a critic and is particularly unsatisfactory to the reader.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

9 Apr 1826

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Abbotsford

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Walter Scott

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1771

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

J. G. Lockhart

Title:

review of Thomas Moore, Life of Sheridan

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Biography, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Quarterly Review no. 66

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26592

Source:

Print

Author:

Walter Scott

Editor:

W. E. K. Anderson

Title:

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

128

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, (Oxford, 1972), p. 128, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26592, accessed: 12 June 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that Scott had sent material to assist Lockhart with article; see p.128 n.2.