Record Number: 33871

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Speaking of the passion of his neighbouring Argentinian landowner, Don Gregorio Gandara, for a range of coloured horses, Hudson writes: 'It reminds one of the famous eighteenth-century miller of Newhaven, described by Mark Antony Lower in his book about the strange customs and quaint characters in the Sussex of the old days'. [Hence follows a detailed description of the miller's horses indicating past reading/current re-reading of this work.]

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1874 and 1899

Country:

England

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:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mark Antony Lower

Title:

Old Speech and Old Manners in Sussex

Genre:

History, Social Science, Geography / Travel, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published in 1861.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33871

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

162

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 162, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33871, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date range of reading is very speculative. This text may well have been read as part of Hudson's research for his "Nature in Downland" (Longmans Green, 1900) which deals with walking on the South Downs of Sussex. Lower also wrote other larger historical works on the customs and history of Sussex. This entry is one of several examples of an elderly Hudson, while writing his memoir, linking his earlier middle aged reading with his childhood past in Argentina, see also for example ID 33719 on the experiences evoked by reading Conrad.