Record Number: 14371
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:20 Mar 1822
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:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Prose works
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14371
Source:Thomas Carlyle
Editor:C R Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, North Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:2
Page:107
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 107, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14371, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 30th April 1822, written at Edinburgh.