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Record 7024

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him the book to read and he is enthusiastic about it.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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:Frank Swinnerton
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 May 1884
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Arnold Bennett
Title: How to Become an Author
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Textbook / self-education
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: September, 1903
Provenance: borrowed (other)
from the author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 7024  
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: 283
  Additional comments: in a letter from Arnold Bennett to J.B. Pinker , 21 May 1920, from 12B George Street, London

Citation: Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol I: Letters to J.B. Pinker (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1, p. 283, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7024, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

editor's note: Chatto and Windus did not issue a new edition of 'How to Become an Author' at this time.

 

 

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