Record Number: 3136

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned articles till my eyes ached and my head swam. The sight of those huge tomes made me tremble with a lover's impatience ...'"

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Bruce Cummings

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1889

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Encyclopedia Britannica

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3136

Source:

Print

Author:

Philp Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

64

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 64, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3136, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from W. N. P. Barbellion, Enjoying Life and Other Literary Remains (1919) 12-13.