| Evidence: | Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned articles till my eyes ached and my head swam. The sight of those huge tomes made me tremble with a lover's impatience ...'" |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Bruce Cummings |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1889 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | |
| Title: | Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Genre: | Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3136 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philp Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 64 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 64, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3136, accessed: 28 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from W. N. P. Barbellion, Enjoying Life and Other Literary Remains (1919) 12-13. |
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