Record Number: 24277

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Mrs Ward] I am delighted to have "Sir George Tressady" from your hand. I have followed him from month to month with the liveliest wonder as to how the inevitable smash in his affairs was to fall, and now that I have read the tale as a whole I see that of course there was but one way. Like all human books it has the unpleasant power of making you think and bother as one only bothers over real folk: but how splendidly you have done the lighter relief-work!'.

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

From: 1 Sep 1896

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Rudyard Kipling

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

30 Dec 1865

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

born in India of English parents

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Augusta Ward

Title:

Sir George Tressady

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
gift from Mrs Ward

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24277

Source:

Print

Author:

Janet Penrose Trevelyan

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1923

Vol:

n/a

Page:

117

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward (London, 1923), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24277, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Kipling had read the book as it was serialised too.