Record Number: 27455
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843: 'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain] -- exceedingly brilliant and clever, but rather too epigrammatic, quotations scanty and not correct.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1843 and 25 Feb 1843
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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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
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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: Title:Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
Genre:Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn the Edinburgh Review
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27455
Source:Samuel Smiles
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Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:2
Page:493
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 2, p. 493, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27455, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter quoted in source continues: '[Richard] Ford is certainly a most astonishing fellow [...] handbooks, reviews, and I hear that he has just been writing a "Life of Velasquez" for the Penny Cyclopedia"!' (p.493), suggesting that Ford possibly author of review read, but at pp.491-92 in source a letter from Ford to Murray is reproduced in which Ford agrees to review the book for the Quarterly Review (edited by Murray), despite having 'half engaged [himself] elsewhere'.