Record Number: 20004
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of duty; and towards you. "She had, indeed, given her consent to our union" (she said) "when you should have made yourself a name and a situation in life [entire phrase underscored twice]; but only because I asked it, with tears, upon my bended knees, at a time, too, when my life seemed precarious!!"'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 13 Oct 1825 and 25 Oct 1825
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Templand
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:14 Jul 1801
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Daughter of doctor
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Letter
Genre:Letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:20004
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:394
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jane Baillie Welsh, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 3, p. 394, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20004, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from JBW to Thomas Carlyle dated 25 October 1825, written at Templand. Pages 393-398 in this edition. Dates of reading experience are estimate - JBW had visited TC recently - he says in a letter of 19 October that it is a week since they parted.
