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Record Number: 19809


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913: 'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have read for many a day.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1913 and 15 Sep 1913

Country:

n/a

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:

Maurice B. Wright

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Neurologist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Leonard Woolf

Title:

The Village in the Jungle

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

February 1913

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

19809

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

192

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 192, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19809, accessed: 07 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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