| Evidence: | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. I can't think how Maimie [i.e. Mary Aylward, family friend] is taken in. Scattered scraps of information such as "in 1903 there will be a second Flood: 'one of the continents' (!) will sink below the sea. In 1910 the world will probably be consumed in the tail of a comet, &tc."
'"Dear me," says Maimie, "to think that we shall probably be alive to see it."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1899 and 31 Aug 1899 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Salisbury county: Wiltshire |
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| Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Undergraduate student |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Other religious, Astrology / alchemy / occult |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19979 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | E. M. Forster | |
| Editor: | Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank | |
| Title: | Selected Letters of E. M. Forster | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 30 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (London, 1983), 1, p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19979, accessed: 05 June 2023 | |
| Source eds. note: 'Jabez Bunting Dimbleby (1827-19??) wrote millenial books whose titles became progressively longer and more alarming. In 1897 The New Era at Hand, (1898-1/4); or, The Approaching Close of the Great Prophetic Periods, achieved a thirteenth edition (see p.30 n.3). |
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