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Record 3821

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 21 Aug 1917 and 30 Nov 1917
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Chelsea
specific address: 141A Church St
   
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:Katherine Mansfield
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1888
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist and Critic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: E.M. Forster
Title: Howard's End
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3821  
Source - Print  
  Author: Katherine Mansfield
  Editor: J Middleton Murry
  Title: Journal of Katherine Mansfield
  Place of Publication: Hamburg Paris Bologna
  Date of Publication: 1935
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 88
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, J Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg Paris Bologna, 1935), p. 88, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3821, accessed: 28 March 2024

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