| Evidence: | "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could proceed only at 'the maximum rate of ten pages -- ten insufferable and unprofitable pages, a day'." |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Aug 1894 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Henry James |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1843 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Meredith |
| Title: | Lord Ormont and his Aminta |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1894 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3785 | |
| 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: | 893 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 893, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3785, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Quotation from Leon Edel, ed., Henry James Letters 3:485. |
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