Record Number: 19954

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Basil Montague, am "a lover of all quiet things"'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

15 May 1825

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Hoddam Hill
specific address: Hoddam Hill farm

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carlyle

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:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: BookManuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19954

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

340-341

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. 340-341, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19954, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh dated 24 June 1825 written at Hoddam Hill. Pages 337-338 in this edition. See TC's letter to Henry Crabb Robinson dated 29 April 1825 in which he refers to his plans to read Richter.