Record Number: 12719
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect -'
Century:1800-1849
Date:12 Jan 1822
Country:Scotland
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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:14 Jul 1801
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:Amateur writer
Religion:Unknown
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:Criticism on Faust (working title)
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review
Publication Detailsdue to be published c. February 1822
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:12719
Source:Jane Bailie Welsh
Editor:CR Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, North Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:2
Page:19
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jane Bailie Welsh, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 19, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12719, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle, dated c. 17 January 1822. Pages 19-21 in this edition. See also JBW's letter to Carlyle dated 29 Dec 1821, and TC's letter to Alexander Carlyle dated 12 Jan 1822. Carlyle refers to the essay in his letter to JBW dated 14 Jan 1822 (p. 14 in this edition) in which he refers to having finished writing it.
