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Record 3177

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays. I am reading yours, however ...'"
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Mar 1908 and 31 Mar 1908
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:Thomas Hardy
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1840
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Violet Hunt
Title: White Rose of Withered Leaf
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1908
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3177  
Source - Print  
  Author: Philip 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: 127
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3177, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate, eds., The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy 3:163.

 

 

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