Record Number: 3755

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work of humour in the English (?) language: but the effects it produces upon the unwary reader ...! I am now a positive wreck.'"

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1906 and 31 Dec 1906

Country:

unknown

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:

Rupert Brooke

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1887

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Marie Corelli

Title:

The Sorrows of Satan

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3755

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

800

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 800, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3755, accessed: 07 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from letter to Geoffrey Keynes, September 1906 in Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968) 61.