Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 6991

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissue a selection from them as a book.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1917 and 11 Jan 1917
Country: England
Time: afternoon: Sunday
Place: city: London
other location: Arnold Bennett's house
   
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:Hugh Walpole
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 May 1884
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: 'New Age' articles
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: from March 1908 - 'Books and Persons'
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6991  
Source - Print  
  Author: Arnold Bennett
  Editor: James Hepburn
  Title: Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker
  Place of Publication: London: Oxford University Press
  Date of Publication: 1966
  Vol: 1
  Page: 245
  Additional comments: in a letter to J.B. Pinker on 11 Jan. 1917, from London

Citation: Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1, p. 245, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6991, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)