Evidence: | "It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headmaster, C. A. Alington, who invited him to be his secretary after the start of the Great War." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1912 and 31 Dec 1914 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Shrewsbury specific address: Shrewsbury School other location: Cricket field |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Neville Cardus |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Assistant cricket professional |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | Euripides |
Title: | Medea |
Genre: | Classics, Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Translated by Gilbert Murray |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3134 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Philp Waller | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 60 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3134, accessed: 30 March 2024 |
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