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Record 3773

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it is, in parts, Simpson Hayward incarnate.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1908 and 19 Jun 1908
Country: England
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:Katherine Mansfield
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1888
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist and Critic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: E.F. Benson
Title: Sheaves
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1908 first edition
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3773  
Source - Print  
  Author: Katherine Mansfield
  Editor: Vincent O'Sullivan
  Title: Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 13
  Additional comments: Letter from Katherine Mansfield to Vera Beauchamp, 19 June 1908

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.), Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990), p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3773, accessed: 19 April 2024

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