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Record Number: 5376


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: of L. Margery Bazett's After-Death Communications (1918), for example, he says, 'A very useful little book with many good cases entirely beyond Criticism.'"

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1859

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

L. Margery Bazett

Title:

After-Death Communications

Genre:

Astrology / alchemy / occult

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1918

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

5376

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

27

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5376, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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