Record Number: 3137

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole volues of Chambers's Encyclopedia ...'"

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

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:

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1874

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Chambers's Encyclopedia

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3137

Source:

Print

Author:

Philp Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

67

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 67, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3137, accessed: 04 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Maisie Ward, Return to Chesterton (1952) 15.