Record Number: 34033

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Here is the much talked of book [Morley Robert's "Time and Thomas Waring"]. It has been a pain for me to read it all through, though it didn't make me slop over and sob and wet three pocket handkerchiefs as in poor Ford Madox Hueffer's case. My trouble is that I have just the same feeling as Waring after his operation—I have lost my hold on life. There it is in a word.' [Hence follow several sentences of criticism of this work.]

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Mar 1914 and 30 Apr 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road, West London

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 and author

Religion:

Christian (Protestant 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:

Morley Roberts

Title:

Time and Thomas Waring: A Study of a Man

Genre:

Fiction, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34033

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The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922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

488

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to Margaret Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, April 1914, 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William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 488, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34033, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Roberts was a close friend of Hudson and the evidence suggests that Hudson may have owned this book and was sending it on Margaret Brooke. Like many of Roberts' works this was autobiographical fiction based on his own experiences.