Record Number: 27158

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference between Jeffrey's best papers and your politics as between Handel and his bellows-blower [...] Is there not too much of the dry rot? Barrow ought not to ride you so unmercifully [...] I want to know, what I don't expect you to tell me, who [italics]did[end italics] the Paradise of Coquettes? Is it not the same hand which [italics]did] "Brand's Popular Antiquities" in the last number but one. I should be sorry to have my brain so full of cobwebs as that gentleman's, be he who he may. Then, your politician, who talks about that "enemy to Europe, the King of Saxony," is a most useful performer.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1807 and 31 Dec 1815

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Time

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Place:

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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:

Rev. P. Elmsley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Vicar of St Mary Cray

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

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Country of Experience:

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Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

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Additional Comments:

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Text Being Read:

Author:

F. Cohen

Title:

[?review of] Brand's Popular Antiquities

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Quarterly Review, published by John Murray

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27158

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Smiles

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1891

Vol:

1

Page:

284

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 1, p. 284, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27158, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Reader also himself an occasional contributor to the Quarterly Review. Text author identified by source ed. 'Dry rot' refers to part of content of series of articles on shipbuilding by John Barrow, appearing in nos. 15, 19, and 23; see source ed.'s note to p.284.