| Evidence: | 'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he noticed the book which the major was reading. It was Corelli's Holy Orders (1908), whereupon, Bennett recorded, "I then gave up hope".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Army Major |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | Switzerland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Anglo-Indian army officer |
| Author: | Marie Corelli |
| Title: | Holy Orders |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1908 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3753 | |
| 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: | 789 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 789, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3753, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Quotation from Newman Flower, ed., The Journals of Arnold Bennett (1932) 1:302. |
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