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Record Number: 20173


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribute to myself & that in it I stand out as a tremendous hero of romance!!!'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

27 Dec 1926

Country:

America

Time

n/a

Place:

city: New York

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Albert Boni

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

publisher

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

America

Country of Experience:

America

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Violet Hunt

Title:

Flurried Years, The

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

published 1926, in America by Boni's firm

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

20173

Source:

Print

Author:

Ford Madox Ford

Editor:

Sondra J. Stang

Title:

Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The

Place of Publication:

Bloomington

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

276

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The, (Bloomington, 1993), p. 276, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20173, accessed: 12 October 2024


Additional Comments:

Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor, Karen Cochran.

   
   
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