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Record 19983

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of Trinity read a paper on "The Uses of History", & very good it was.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Feb 1900 and 27 Feb 1900
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cambridge
   
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:George Macaulay Trevelyan
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1876
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Edward Morgan Forster
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
Title: 'The Uses of History'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19983  
Source - Print  
  Author: E. M. Forster
  Editor: Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank
  Title: Selected Letters of E. M. Forster
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1983
  Vol: 1
  Page: 38
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (London, 1983), 1, p. 38, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19983, accessed: 29 March 2024

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