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Record 12187

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitch), a friend of Osborne. Interested in this novelist principally because Osborne knew him, Arthur wrote a lengthy letter to his friend praising the novel as "a very clever book... powerfully and thrillingly written" but "too sensational" for his taste.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1883 and 13 Jul 1883
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:Arthur Symons
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 Feb 1865
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: preacher's son, later poet
Religion: Wesleyan, later none
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: Leith Derwent [pseud.]
Title: Circe's Lovers
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12187  
Source - Print  
  Author: Karl Beckson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Arthur Symons. A Life
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1987
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 19-20
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons. A Life (Oxford, 1987), p. 19-20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12187, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation taken from a 13th July 1883 letter to Osborne held at Princeton

 

 

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