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Record 20218

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is "bland, ironic humurous [sic] discursive, always amusing, throughly convincing" & I've been trying to find the place where I left off in the proofs but have just realized how futile such a search is & have gone back to the beginning.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Until: 12 Jan 1937
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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:Esther Julia Ford
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 29 Nov 1920
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: daughter of artist and writer
Religion: Catholic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: later Julia Madox Loewe

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ford Madox Ford
Title: Great Trade Route, The
Genre: Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
sent by Ford

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20218  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ford Madox Ford
  Editor: Sondra J. Stang
  Title: Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The
  Place of Publication: Bloomington
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 449-50
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The (Bloomington, 1993), p. 449-50, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20218, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor Karen Cochran. Letter from Ford's daughter Julie

 

 

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