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Record 20034

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Dec 1910 and 16 Jan 1911
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:Edward Morgan Forster
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1 Jan 1879
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sir Alfred C. Lyall
Title: Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social
Genre: Other religious, Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1882
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20034  
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: 121 n.3
  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. 121 n.3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20034, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds.' note accompanies letter to Syed Ross Masood in which Forster writes: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India' (p.120).

 

 

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