Record Number: 18127
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in it but a review of Meister! I bought it, read it, and sent it to you.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 13 Jul 1824 and 20 Jul 1824
Country:England
Timemorning
Place:city: London
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:4 Dec 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer / Academic
Religion:Lapsed Calvinist
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsThe Examiner dated 13 June (see notes below)
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18127
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:3
Page:112
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18127, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Thomas Carlyle to Margaret A. Carlyle dated 20 July 1824, written at Birmingham. Pages 110 - 113 in this edition. Editor's note refers to Carlyle's letter to John A. Carlyle dated 24 June 1824 in which he also refers to the Examiner review (this reference gives the date of publication) - implication is that this is the same edition, though Carlyle makes no mention of having seen it before.