| Evidence: | Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays. I am reading yours, however ...'" |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Mar 1908 and 31 Mar 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Hardy |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1840 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Violet Hunt |
| Title: | White Rose of Withered Leaf |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1908 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 3177 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 127 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 127, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3177, accessed: 25 May 2013 | |
| Quotation from Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate, eds., The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy 3:163. |
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