Record Number: 26795
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Tuesday, 24 February 1829: 'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his niece Anne] again met Colonel and Mrs. Blair with Thomas Thompson. We lookd over some most beautiful drawings which Mrs. Blair had made in different parts of India exhibiting a species of architecture so gorgeous and on a scale so extensive as to put to shame the magnificence of Europe [...] Mrs. Blair is full of enthusiasm. She told me that when she workd with her pencil she was glad to have some one read to her as a sort of sedative, otherwise her excitement made her tremble and burst out a crying.'
Century:1800-1849
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Listener: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Artist
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Source Information:
Record ID:26795
Source:Walter Scott
Editor:W. E. K. Anderson
Title:The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1972
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Page:523
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Citation:
Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, (Oxford, 1972), p. 523, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26795, accessed: 28 September 2024
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