Record Number: 10169
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ them she has not a single good feature in her face,/but unlike them she does not even do her best ??' [total = 18 lines]
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1871
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Timen/a
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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:Female
Date of Birth:1787
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Daughter of Scottish land owning family
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:Scotland
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Matilde a novel
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10169
Source:Manuscript
Author:Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine
Title:Recueil
Location:Dunimarle Library at Duff House
Call No:DH LIB 2024
Page/Folio:Item 51
Additional Information:
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Citation:
Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine, Recueil, Dunimarle Library at Duff House, DH LIB 2024, Item 51, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10169, accessed: 13 March 2025
Additional Comments:
A commonplace book containing 69 items, mainly in one hand. On the basis of writing style, nature of contents, dates of entries (1827-1871) and of the material selected (mainly poets from the late 18th to mid-19th century), and the watermark date (1810), the most likely identity of the main hand is Magdalene Sharpe-Erskine, the youngest child of the main generation who collected the Dunimarle Library. Fourteen of the items are exclusively or mainly prose, the rest are poetry. Most are in English. About half the items are given, by the complier, as anonymous and about a third have no title. In each case some 6 have been identified from other sources.
