| Evidence: | Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to read ... [the introduction, signed by himself]. They were pages of adulation of the author and his beliefs. And I had not written nor seen a word of it!' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1923 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Newman Flower |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Publisher |
| 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: | Hall Caine |
| Title: | The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction) |
| Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1923 |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 3750 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philip 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: | 763 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 763, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3750, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Newman Flower, Just as it Happened (1950) 231-2. |
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