Evidence: | '[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence Henniker, "I began it, but found the people too materialistic and sordid to be interesting".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Hardy |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 2 Jun 1840 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Galsworthy |
Title: | The Man of Property |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 3912 | |
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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: | 1000-01 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 1000-01, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3912, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Quotation from letter of Thomas Hardy to Florence Henniker, 12 September 1906 in Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate, eds., "The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy" 3:225. |
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