Record Number: 19874
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic than the Opiumeater-'
Century:1800-1849
Date:17 Jan 1825
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Haddington
specific address: Family home
(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:14 Jul 1801
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Daughter of doctor - no profession
none
Religion:Christian
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:Letter dated 20th January 1825
Genre:Letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:19874
Source:Jane Baillie Welsh
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:263
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 263, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19874, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to TC dated 29 January 1825. Pages 263-267 in this edition. Date range based on TC's letter to JBW dated 20th December in which he spends some pages critiquing her last letter to him. 'Opiumeater' here refers to de Quincey's review of Meister in the London Magazine.
