Record Number: 27300
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to Blackwood, who proposed to hold a dinner in honour of the occasion, to which Scott, Erskine, and James Ballantyne were to be invited. Scott [...] unfortunately, could not accept the invitation for the day named; but, to secure his attendance, the dinner was put off for a week, and then he made his appearance with Erskine and Ballantyne. The poems were read, to the immense delight of the audience.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Feb 1816 and 9 Feb 1815
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
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: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
William Blackwood Erskine James Ballantyne
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Siege of Corinth
Genre:Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27300
Source:Samuel Smiles
Editor:n/a
Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:1
Page:455
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 1, p. 455, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27300, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Source ed. quotes from letter from Blackwood to John Murray of 11 February 1816, in which it is remarked: 'The arrival of Byron's Poems has created a great buzz here. It has also got over the whole town that Mr. Scott had dined with me, and read them, and was in raptures with them I did not mean to have said anything about this, but Mr. S. and Ballantyne talked about it, and it spread abroad like wildfire' (pp.455-456).