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Re: A Glasgow bookcase

From: Ian Thompson <ian.thompson~at~ges.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:49:09 +0100
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Michael Everson wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2010, at 19:57, mystery1881~at~verizon.net wrote:
>
>> What? No Rabbie Burns?
>
> If you like Scots, I can tell you that a translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Scots is in preparation.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
>
  The author was only 8 in 1880 and had a younger brother and sister, so
I imagine that Burns' writings in Scots would probably have been
incomprehensible.There may also have been an element of parental
control...Rabbie Burns' adventurous personal life may not have been
appreciated in a middle class family.I should have mentioned that in
addition to the family Bible, the bookcase contained several books of an
"improving" nature for the children, for example The Pilgrim's Progress.
A chapter on "Sundays" in "I Remember" describes the bleakness of the
Sabbath in Scotland (as Verne discovered in Edinburgh in 1859). In
Glasgow's bourgeois West End, even the magnificent fountain
commemorating the arrival of pure water from Loch Katrine,that I
described in a recent posting, was switched off for the day! So reading
would have been one of the few sources of entertainment for children on
Sundays,but Rabbie Burns would probably not have been considered
suitable family reading. Certainly, the two Verne books in the bookcase
would have been a welcome diversion
Ian Thompson
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