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Record 8698

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at last flew away on his strong pinions, and when he met the swans and was accepted as an equal, then I felt sorrowful, agreeably sorrowful. It seemed to me nothing could undo, atone for, the grief and humiliations of the false duckling's early youth.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1873 and 31 Dec 1873
Country: England
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 Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 27 May 1867
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Child at the time of reading, later 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Anon
Title: Ugly Duckling
Genre: Children's Lit
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8698  
Source - Print  
  Author: Margaret Drabble
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Arnold Bennett
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1974
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 32
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Margaret Drabble, Arnold Bennett (London, 1974), p. 32, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8698, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Drabble cites The Truth About an Author, p. 14, as her source for this quotation.

 

 

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