Record Number: 12188
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'imaginative realism', but still, in its lower sphere, what mastery!"'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1883 and 28 Apr 1883
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Feb 1865
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:preacher's son, later poet
Religion:Wesleyan, later none
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Modern Instance
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12188
Source:Karl Beckson
Editor:n/a
Title:Arthur Symons. A Life
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1987
Vol:n/a
Page:20
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Karl Beckson, Arthur Symons. A Life, (Oxford, 1987), p. 20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12188, accessed: 14 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a 28th April letter to Osborne held at Princeton