Record Number: 8709

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics]; he wrote to Moore on 24 December 1920, "I wish also to tell you that it was the first chapters of A Mummer's wife [title in italics] which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years.'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1885 and 31 Dec 1900

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: 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:

Arnold Bennett

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

27 May 1867

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer / editor.

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

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:

George Moore

Title:

A Mummer's Wife

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published in 1885.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8709

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Drabble

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Arnold Bennett

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1974

Vol:

n/a

Page:

2

Additional Comments:

Note to quotation from 'Source notes' (p. 357). Letter from A B to George Moore (24 December 1920), in Letters, ed Hepburn (London, 1968), vol 3.

Citation:

Margaret Drabble, Arnold Bennett, (London, 1974), p. 2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8709, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Secondary source.