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Record 3883

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel that you will be able to command a market for such wares & in better periodicals (if I may say so) than London."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 11 Jul 1877
Country: England
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: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: William Ernest Henley
Title: Miss Grant
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: N. XXIII in a series of essays on women novelists (London, 3/2/1877 - 21/7/1877). 'Miss Grant' appeared on 7/7/1877.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3883  
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: 1
  Page: 213
  Additional comments: Letter from Leslie Stephen to W. E. Henley (12/7/1877)

Citation: Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 1 1864-1882 (Ohio State University Press, 1996), 1, p. 213, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3883, accessed: 19 April 2024

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