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Record Number: 32336


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I bought yesterday a little shilling book about Wm. Morris, his life and his work, which is rather interesting. To me, at least, for I am afraid you have given up that old friend of ours....That little book about Wm. Morris has interested me so much - or re-awakened the old interest - in him, that I have just written up for "The Roots of the Mountains"...it is about the Goths and is praised in that book as being one of the best of the prose romances.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 3 May 1915 and 11 May 1915

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

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:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Arthur Clutton-Brock

Title:

William Morris: his Work and Influence

Genre:

Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Biography, Crafts, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

William and Norgate, 1914

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

32336

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

117, 118-19

Additional Comments:

From letters to Arthur Greeves, 4 May 1915, and 11 May 1915

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 117, 118-19, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32336, accessed: 19 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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