Record Number: 33720
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'One smiles at the vision of the gentle Richard Jefferies slaughtering wild cattle in the palaeolithic way, but that feeling and desire which he describes with such passion in his "Story of my Heart", that survival of the past, is not uncommon in the hearts of hunters'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Between 1 May 1883 and 1918
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Naturalist, writer
Religion:Christian (Protestant), in childhood only
Country of Origin:Argentina
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Story of My Heart
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Longman's, 1883
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33720
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1918
Vol:n/a
Page:124
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 124, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33720, accessed: 24 April 2024
Additional Comments:
(John) Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), English nature writer, who depicted English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. Hudson may have read this work soon after its publication and before he himself began to write about the English countryside, or later when researching his own works. This evidence of reading is another example (see also ID 33719)of a childhood memory (this time of an incident with a troop of rebel soldiers passing though the Hudson family estancia) resurrected for a late autobiography, but also linked to a memory of more recent adult reading.
