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Record Number: 28427


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I commence my letter with the name of James Hogg; for the writings of that man in your numbers, his speeches in your "Noctes," when I was a child, laid a hold on my mind which succeeding years have consecrated into a most sacred feeling. I cannot express, though you can understand, the heavenliness of associations connected with such articles as Professor Wilson's, read and re-read while a little child [...] when a child "Blackwood" formed my chief delight, and I feel certain no child before enjoyed reading as I did, because none ever had such works as "The Noctes," "Christmas Dreams," "Christopher in his Sporting Jacket" to read [goes on comment further, and to quote passage concerning the death of its narrator's "golden-haired sister," with the remark that he had read it at the time of his own sister's death]'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Branwell Bronte

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

26 Jun 1817

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

James Hogg

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In "Blackwood's Magazine"

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28427

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington

Title:

The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

I-II

Page:

133

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), I-II, p. 133, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28427, accessed: 04 October 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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