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Record 20568

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Dec 1917 and 31 Jan 1918
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:Florence Barger
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1879
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Wales
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: Edward Carpenter
Title: My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1916
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20568  
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: 286 n.1
  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. 286 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20568, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source eds' note accompanies remark by E. M. Forster, in letter to Barger, that 'In another letter you said with great justice that E. C. had lived not by will but by vision' (see p.285).

 

 

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