| 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.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1873 and 31 Dec 1873 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | Anon |
| Title: | Ugly Duckling |
| Genre: | Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8698 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: 02 June 2023 | |
| Drabble cites The Truth About an Author, p. 14, as her source for this quotation. |
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