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Record 18705

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as well that this munificent printer?s error should be set right at once. The sum was ?1,250.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 15 Dec 1916 and 2 Jan 1917
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:Arnold Bennett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 May 1867
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer/journalist/reviewer
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:
Title: Westminster Gazette
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1916
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18705  
Source - Print  
  Author: Arnold Bennett
  Editor: James Hepburn
  Title: Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol.III 1916 -1931
  Place of Publication: London: Oxford University Press
  Date of Publication: 1970
  Vol: III
  Page: 23
  Additional comments: In a letter from Arnold Bennett to the Editor of the Westminster Gazette dated January 2 [1917] from Comarques

Citation: Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol.III 1916 -1931 (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), III, p. 23, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18705, accessed: 16 April 2024

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