| Evidence: | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my very limit ..."' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1914 and 31 Dec 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Egypt | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Egypt |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry James |
| Title: | What Maisie Knew |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3606 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philip Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | n/a | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 637 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 p. 637, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3606, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| Quotation from Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank, Selected Letters of Forster 1:240. |
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