| Evidence: | "Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work of humour in the English (?) language: but the effects it produces upon the unwary reader ...! I am now a positive wreck.'" |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1906 and 31 Dec 1906 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Rupert Brooke |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1887 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Marie Corelli |
| Title: | The Sorrows of Satan |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3755 | |
| 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: | 800 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 800, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3755, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from letter to Geoffrey Keynes, September 1906 in Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968) 61. |
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