Record Number: 12744
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Nov 1848 and 2 Dec 1848
Country:Bermuda
Timen/a
Place:other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda
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:3 Nov 1815
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion:Presbyterian family
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Bermuda
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[biography of Walter Scott]
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
probably from the library on the prison hulk
Source Information:
Record ID:12744
Source:John Mitchel
Editor:n/a
Title:Jail Journal
Place of Publication:Dublin
Date of Publication:1913
Vol:n/a
Page:97
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
John Mitchel, Jail Journal, (Dublin, 1913), p. 97, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12744, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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