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Record Number: 6984


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, and some of my friends say that it is far more interesting than anything else I have written.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1914 and 24 Jan 1914

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Comarques, France

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:

Arnold Bennett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

27 May 1867

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer/editor/reviewer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Arnold Bennett

Title:

Journal

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

Later published as Journals of Arnold Bennett, Cassell, 1932-3, though read in MS here.

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6984

Source:

Print

Author:

Arnold Bennett

Editor:

James Hepburn

Title:

Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker

Place of Publication:

London: Oxford University Press

Date of Publication:

1966

Vol:

1

Page:

204

Additional Comments:

in a letter to J.B. Pinker Jan.24, 1914, from Comarques

Citation:

Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1, p. 204, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6984, accessed: 18 April 2024


Additional Comments:

editor's note: 'In 1906 and 1907 Bennett printed extracts from his journal as Christmas gift-books.' [entries also printed in periodicals during his lifetime.]

   
   
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