Evidence: | 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray suffering from a decline? He is the best of them, easily. What novelist is there to rival him in the nineteenth century? Dickens, perhaps, in greatness, but there is no comparison between their writings, they are so completely different from each other. There is no standard, and no need for one.
I picked up for 6 cent. a little ?Selected works of Pope. With the ?Dunciad? ?The Rape of the Lock?, ?Essay on Critism?? Fine!'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 27 Aug 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Liverpool | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Gerald Moore |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 16 Jun 1903 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company |
Religion: | none |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
Title: | Esmond |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 12396 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Gerald Moore | |
Title: | MS Diary 1926 | |
Location: | Private Collection | |
Call no: | MS Diary 1926 | |
Page/folio: | n/a |
Citation: | Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1926 Private Collection, p. MS Diary 1926, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12396, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)