| Evidence: | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years'). |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1895 and 31 Aug 1895 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | John Buchan |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 26 Aug 1875 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | student |
| Religion: | Presbyterian |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | student at work on a novel |
| Author: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry, Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18460 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Janet Adam Smith | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | John Buchan: A Biography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1965 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 42 | |
| Additional comments: | report of reading during JB's last weeks at college, scholarship to Oxford in hand. |
| Citation: | Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography (London, 1965), p. 42, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18460, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
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