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Record Number: 8402


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] I find she wrote to me 3 about the Requiescat ... she had seen it in "The Nation"and wrote [...] Thanking me for sending it to her [...] and adding "it goes into my private anthology".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1909 and 12 May 1914

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:

Ella D'Arcy

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Charlotte Mew

Title:

"Requiescat"

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Nation, 1909

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

8402

Source:

Print

Author:

Penelope Fitzgerald

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

96

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (London, 1984), p. 96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8402, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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