Record Number: 3755
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
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Sorrows of Satan
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:3755
Source:Philip Waller
Editor:n/a
Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
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Page:800
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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: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from letter to Geoffrey Keynes, September 1906 in Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968) 61.