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Record 5805

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they made her weep.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 1 Aug 1923
Country: England
Time: daytime: 'a wild grey day'
Place: other location: the deck house of a yacht
   
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:Pauline Smith
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
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: Arnold Bennett
Title: Riceyman Steps
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book, proofs
Publication details: London, 1923
Provenance: borrowed (private library)
lent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5805  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Drabble
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Arnold Bennett
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1974
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 284
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Drabble, Arnold Bennett (London, 1974), p. 284, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5805, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

The yacht belonged to Arnold Bennett.

 

 

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