Evidence: | 'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage in the reading I knew with a happy breathless certainty that this was what I wanted to do with my life: to write books like this."' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1901 and 31 Dec 1901 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Ernest Raymond |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | The Pickwick Papers |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3203 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 189 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 189, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3203, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Quotation from Ernest Raymond, The Story of My Days: An Autobiography (1968) 77-80. |
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