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Record 3137

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole volues of Chambers's Encyclopedia ...'"
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
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:Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1874
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: unknown
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Chambers's Encyclopedia
Genre: Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3137  
Source - Print  
  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: 67
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3137, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Maisie Ward, Return to Chesterton (1952) 15.

 

 

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