Record Number: 33946

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'‘We were going to congratulate you on Tuesday after the play ["The Silver Box" 25 Sept 1906] but we saw you shut in by such a vast throng of eager friends that we had to retire. It was a pleasure next day [i.e., Wednesday 26] to read the almost unanimous chorus of praise in the papers—I think we saw pretty well all of them. Archer’s was one of the best but I did not agree with him in what he said anent your feeling towards your people in "The Man of Property"— those of the characters you did not love.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

26 Sep 1906

Country:

England

Time

morning

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:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only

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:

William Archer

Title:

[review]

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

Possibly published in the Daily Chronicle (26 September 1906)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33946

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

Denis Shrubsall

Title:

The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y.

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

2

Page:

403

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to John Galsworthy, 28 September 1906, unspecified address in Winchester.

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 403, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33946, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Wiliam Archer (1856-1924) was a well known London drama critic. Among the dailies for which he wrote were the "Daily Chronicle" and the "Daily News".