Record Number: 10278
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the "Quarterly review".'
Century:1800-1849
Date:19 Apr 1820
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh (probably)
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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Article IX
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsEdinburgh Review, LXV (Jan. 1820)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10278
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:1
Page:248
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 248, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10278, accessed: 04 February 2026
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 6th May 1820 written at Mainhill. Pages 242 - 250 in this edition. Estimated date range of reading experience based on the date that the articles were published (in Jan 1820 edition) and date of Carlyle's letter here.
