| Evidence: | 'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics]; he wrote to Moore on 24 December 1920, "I wish also to tell you that it was the first chapters of A Mummer's wife [title in italics] which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1885 and 31 Dec 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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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: | George Moore |
| Title: | A Mummer's Wife |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published in 1885. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8709 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Margaret Drabble | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Arnold Bennett | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 2 | |
| Additional comments: | Note to quotation from 'Source notes' (p. 357). Letter from A B to George Moore (24 December 1920), in Letters, ed Hepburn (London, 1968), vol 3. |
| Citation: | Margaret Drabble, Arnold Bennett (London, 1974), p. 2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8709, accessed: 02 June 2023 | |
| Secondary source. |
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