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Record Number: 20182


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud. I don't know how to tell you how proud it makes me. It is lovely of you to want to pay me such a tribute. Of course I don't deserve a quarter of it. Some day I shall begin to tell you what [underlined] you [end underlining] have done for [underlined] me [end underlining]! I suppose you know me well enough however to guess that at the idea of your letter being [underlined] published [end italics] I am overcome by feelings of really awful - shyness, I suppose it is.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 25 Jan 1926

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris

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:

Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 May 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

artist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Australia

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Title:

[dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier']

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

20182

Source:

Print

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Editor:

Sondra J. Stang

Title:

Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The

Place of Publication:

Bloomington

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

304

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The (Bloomington, 1993), p. 304, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20182, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor Karen Cochran.

   
   
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