Record Number: 19985

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905: 'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e. the Apostles] a paper, which, if I find it, I will send you [...] No one thought there was much in it (Strachey, Sheppard, Keynes, present). You may throw it away.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1904 and 1 Jan 1905

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cambridge

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:

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1879

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Lecturer/writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Lytton Strachey John Tresidder Sheppard John Maynard Keynes

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Morgan Forster

Title:

paper

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Unknown

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19985

Source:

Print

Author:

E. M. Forster

Editor:

Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank

Title:

Selected Letters of E. M. Forster

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

1

Page:

63

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, (London, 1983), 1, p. 63, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19985, accessed: 13 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source eds. note paper read now lost (see p.64 n.1).