| Evidence: | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he said to himself, on re-reading "Bel-Ami" after ten years in 1903 - "People might easily say that in "A Man from the North" I had plagiarized from it..."' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 15 Nov 1903 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Arnold Bennett |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 27 May 1867 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer/editor |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Guy de Maupassant |
| Title: | Bel-Ami |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4579 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Margaret Drabble | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Arnold Bennett | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 143 | |
| Additional comments: | author's note: from Journals,entry for 15 November 1903 |
| Citation: | Margaret Drabble, Arnold Bennett (London, 1974), p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4579, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Secondary source |
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