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Record 6976

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetrating book on Shakespeare ever written.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
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:Arnold Bennett
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 May 1867
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer/editor/reviewer
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Frank Harris
Title: n/a
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Biography
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
lent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6976  
Source - Print  
  Author: Arnold Bennett
  Editor: James Hepburn
  Title: Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker
  Place of Publication: London: Oxford University Press
  Date of Publication: 1966
  Vol: 1
  Page: 106
  Additional comments: In a letter to J.B. Pinker from Villa des Nefliers, 8 Nov 1908.

Citation: Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1, p. 106, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6976, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

presumably Bennett read this book in manuscript or typescript

 

 

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