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Record Number: 19825


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924: 'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hands en route for a reviewer last week, and it looked so good that I coveted it for my own.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1924 and 14 Aug 1924

Country:

England

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:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Literary Editor, The Nation

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Clare

Title:

Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Ed. Edmund Blunden

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19825

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

289

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 289, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19825, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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