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Record 5489

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddle going with his left hand, and with the other make pencil notes on Webster, steadying the text against his knee,'"
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1909 and 1911
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: other location: in canoe on water
   
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:Rupert Brooke
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1887
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: ?John ?Webster
Title: n/a
Genre: Drama, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5489  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 112
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 112, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5489, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation derived from Christopher Hassall, Rupert Brooke: A Biography (London, 1964) 266.

 

 

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