| Evidence: | 'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the novel's passages of "extraordinary power"...' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mrs Humphry Ward |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 11 Jun 1851 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | Tasmania |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Mary Augusta Ward |
| Title: | Robert Elsmere |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3928 | |
| 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: | 1033 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 1033, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3928, accessed: 28 September 2023 | |
| Quotation from Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary 2:26 (entry for 10 February 1888). |
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