Record Number: 19795
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read it again, it seemed to me to be the saddest & most beautiful book I had ever read. Surely it is the beginning & end of realism [comments further].'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 15 Sep 1907 and 29 Sep 1907
Country:Ceylon
Timen/a
Place:other location: On board train to Hatton
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:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Colonial civil servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ceylon
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Madame Bovary
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19795
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:132-133; 132
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 132-133; 132, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19795, accessed: 04 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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