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Record 20214

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Cape has seen the first 4 chapters [of what Stella calls 'Towards Tomorrow']. He finds them full of charm but says he could not make a better offer than Gollancz's, nor indeed such a good one.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Until: 17 Jun 1933
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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: Cape
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: publisher
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ford Madox Ford
Title: [early chapters of what would become 'It was the Nightingale']
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
shown to him by Stella Bowen

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20214  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ford Madox Ford
  Editor: Sondra J. Stang
  Title: Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The
  Place of Publication: Bloomington
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 407
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The (Bloomington, 1993), p. 407, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20214, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor Karen Cochran. Presumably this was a Mr Cape of Jonathan Cape, the publisher.

 

 

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