Record Number: 28800

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'At present I am deep in Les Misérables, which is wonderful.'

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:

Constance Wilde

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1858

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Author and Housewife

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

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:

Victor Hugo

Title:

Les Misérables

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Originally published in French in 1862

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28800

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:

230

Additional Comments:

Source is a letter from Constance and Oscar Wilde to Otho Holland Lloyd, dated 25 June July 1884, included in Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davis, eds., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2000); the editors note that only the envelope and the final postscript are in Wilde's hand

Citation:

Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, (New York, 2000), p. 230, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28800, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None