Record Number: 28797

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Also, please tell Miss Morris that the novel The Nihilist Princess is a sham, and empty of all dramatic matter. She had been afraid of it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Oscar Wilde

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Oct 1854

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Author, Poet and Journalist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Louise Mignerot Gagneur

Title:

A Nihilist Princess

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Chicago, 1881 [translation from the French]

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28797

Source:

Print

Author:

Oscar Wilde

Editor:

Merlin Holland

Title:

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

n/a

Page:

152

Additional Comments:

Source is a letter to Richard D'Oyly Carte, from March 1882, included in Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davis, eds., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2000)

Citation:

Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, (New York, 2000), p. 152, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28797, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None