Record Number: 13025

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to which I do not take violent exception. . . . Webster was intensely pleased with it, dreamed of it I believe, & only his modesty stopped him from addressing you thereon a note of congratulation. Marriott read it with awe; possibly it opened his eye to the strange fact that other arts than painting have their absorbing mysteries of technique.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 27 Nov 1897 and 8 Dec 1897

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/reviewer

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 Sturt

Title:

A Note on Fiction

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

'Academy', 27 November, 1897

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

13025

Source:

Print

Author:

Arnold Bennett

Editor:

James Hepburn

Title:

Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol.II 1889-1915

Place of Publication:

London: Oxford University Press

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

II

Page:

93

Additional Comments:

Letter from AB to George Sturt, dated 8 Decr 97, from 6 Victoria Grove.

Citation:

Arnold Bennett, James Hepburn (ed.), Letters of Arnold Bennett Vol.II 1889-1915, (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), II, p. 93, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13025, accessed: 07 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

editor's note: Sturt's article 'argues that there is little point in novelists seeking new subjects in the business or labouring worlds, etc., for the essential interest in any novel must be the human being.'