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Record 3238

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyone telling me that Thackeray is a better novelist than Trollope."'
Century:
Date: Between 1 Apr 1905 and 30 Apr 1905
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:Sir Walter Raleigh
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1861
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Scholar and writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Anthony Trollope
Title: unknown
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3238  
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: 200
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 200, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3238, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Lady Raleigh, ed., The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh (2 vols, 1926) 1:272.

 

 

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