Record Number: 34025
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the reading classes in England will have to pull themselves together—or what? [...] These are uncomfortable subjects but I've nothing literary to write about. I wasn't well enough to go and see my literary and journal friends on Tuesday as usual, and so feel out of what's doing. "[In] Cotton Wool" is on the table and my sick wife who has not read a book these nine months, has taken it up and, I see, is halfway through it. She says she doesn't like it but something compels her to go on reading it. I may be able to read it in some future time: just now I'm writing, not reading and am turning out a few articles.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 May 1912 and 16 May 1912
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 40 St. Luke's Road, West London
(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:Field naturalist and 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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[articles in the Daily Mail]
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsDaily Mail (May and June 1912) articles subsequently repr. as "What the Worker Wants: The Daily Mail Enquiry," Wells and others. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34025
Source: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Title:The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922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:464
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hudson to Margaret Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, Sunday, 16 May 1912, 40 St. Luke's Road, W. London
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William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 464, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34025, accessed: 20 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Because this piece of evidence includes reading, non-reading, intention to read, and observation of another's reading, it is cited here in detail so as to be recoverable. The novel would presumably be "In Cotton Wool"(1912) by William Babington Maxwell (1866-1938), a son of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and himself a satirical novelist, and was possibly sent on by Margaret Brooke, who shared many books with Hudson. The missed Tuesday meeting would have been with the publisher's reader Edward Garnett whose literary lunches at the Mont Blanc restaurant in Soho,attented by Galsworthy Conrad and others, were where shared reading and work in progress were discussed.