Record Number: 27999

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The storm around might roar and rustle We didna mind the storm a whistle'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1790 and 10 Dec 1825

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Walter Scott

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

15 Aug 1771

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Novelist, poet and lawyer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Burns

Title:

Tam o' Shanter

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27999

Source:

Print

Author:

Walter Scott

Editor:

W.E.K Anderson

Title:

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

1998

Vol:

n/a

Page:

39

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Walter Scott, W.E.K Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, (Edinburgh, 1998), p. 39, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27999, accessed: 24 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Diary entry for Friday, 10th December 1825