| Evidence: | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence "I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1881 and 31 Dec 1882 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Hall Caine |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 14 May 1853 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Matthew Gregory Lewis |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3645 | |
| 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: | 753-54 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 753-54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3645, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
| Quotation from Robert Sherard, "Hall Caine," Windsor Magazine (1895) 570. |
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