Record Number: 20034

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1910 and 16 Jan 1911

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Edward Morgan Forster

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1879

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sir Alfred C. Lyall

Title:

Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social

Genre:

Other religious, Social Science, Geography / Travel, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1882

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20034

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:

121 n.3

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. 121 n.3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20034, accessed: 05 October 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source eds.' note accompanies letter to Syed Ross Masood in which Forster writes: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India' (p.120).