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Record Number: 18010


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Oscar Wilde

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Oct 1854

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Matthew Arnold

Title:

Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18010

Source:

Print

Author:

Nellie Sickert

Editor:

n/a

Title:

I Have Been Young

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1935

Vol:

n/a

Page:

n/a

Additional Comments:

Quoted in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, eds. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (NY: Henry Holt & Co., 2000), p.83 (n.1)

Citation:

Nellie Sickert, I Have Been Young (1935), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18010, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

The edition and date of the reading experience is unknown, though Holland and Hart-Davis note that the inscription on the volume indicates that Sickert received the book as a gift from Oscar Wilde in 1879, indicating that the experience took place before then.

   
   
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