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Record 3710

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise of them."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: 16 Onslow Garden
   
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:Leslie Stephen
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Nov 1832
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: [Some French novels]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3710  
Source - Print  
  Author: Leslie Stephen
  Editor: John Bicknell
  Title: The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882.
  Place of Publication: Ohio State University Press
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 54
  Additional comments: Letter from Leslie Stephen to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18/08/1867)

Citation: Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 1 1864-1882. (Ohio State University Press, 1996), p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3710, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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